Show PRISONER WAS PUT THROUGH THE THIRD DEGREE TOO OFTEN NEW YORK July After 3 After a a. weeks week's rigid investigation the Queens county grand and jury has refused to indict Henry Becker for the murder of fifteen fifteen- year fifteen earold ear ear- old Amelia of Flushing Becker Becker Beck Beck- Beck er will be arraigned ned in Flushing and discharged The police are now working work ing lug on new clues and in addition to looking for a former close friend of the family who is missing are trying to locate the source of a number of Black Hand Eland letters that have been received by Mrs George Simonson the chief wit witness witness ness a against Becker Casting Casting- aside all other clues the police police police po po- po- po lice settled on on Becker as the perpetrator of the murder He is about 22 years years of a age e and did odd jobs for a livelihood in the neighborhood where the girl was killed wile while picking n dandelions dandelions dandelions dan dan- delions Wednesday afternoon May 22 She was stabbed behind the ri right ht ear several times with the thel knife she had used in cutting dandelions Becker was walt arrested near the scene the next day I It was not until after he had been put through the third degree several several several sev sev- eral times that B Becker made a confession confession confession confes confes- sion and then h he ho started in to confess the murder to everybody who happened to ask him about th the the crime i t The grand jury it is said believed Becker Beeker was frightened into making th the confession |