Show I So A ry PY g nt Tortured Prisoner rion r ls Is Charge Ch rg D EN FORMER e eH d- d li Towel Around ld M d Then Rope Says Witness ess lay rHODS ADMITTED Ler Is Disclosed in in inJune New York Court V II YORK June 24 AP AP-A AP A e ee method of punishment fa MiS hig git the he tying of a towel about Nd d of f a man given the third has been bee used at federal JI tion ion headquarters was admitted in federal by ajor jor A August gust Helse Heise ast asI as- as t I prohibition administrator llis Is d strict 11 r an tn East Indian I cur eur for four former rohi agents with whom he is on of of bribery te ti tes-ti- U- U HeIse Helse had told him would come through with against the suspected not be prosecuted dhe he knew nothing against BriggS continued the called me a d damned liar Itar I Ii i and f foot ot in inS in S 'S a chair ti fled d. d l a J mr and put a rope rop around the Major Heise kicked me ir irom In 11 om ch and someone hit me wIth head d with a stick sUck witness asserted that a a man other oom was kicked hit against a window and arid cut he reIse to give give- r Helse testified he had haq or or- himen men to tie Briggs' Briggs amis arms Continued on page 8 j THIRD DEGREE I GIVEN IVEN FORMER I I J j WORK WORKER R i I Continued from page 1 I and legs and then tie a towel tightly tight tight- ly Iy around his head He described the tha towel feature as a Chines Chine method of punishment and said he had warned Driggs that if It he did not ot tell the truth I would twist it it itHe He said however he had cau cautioned cautioned his men merr that neither the tow towel l nor the rope should be tied beetled so tightly tIght y that they would stop circulation Major Heise Helse admitted that another another another an an- an- an other man had been pushed through a window pane In a fight tight with a prohibit prohibit-on agent to kare icare care s-care Briggs into confessing I Three of or the five men on trial are nrc negroes It Is charged that gs Drig-gs was their collector I I C tV |