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POLICE
The Seattle Star of September 4
contains a front page story, together
with a large portrait of a former resi
dent of Cordova, under the caption of
"Officer enters innocent girl’s room at
1 a. m.” Here’s the story:
Mayor Gill began an investigation
Saturday of charges made Miss Lillian
McClug, 24, of the Oxford hotel, 1920
First Ave., that City Dectective Daniel
McLennan arrested her in her room at
1 a. m. Friday, then compelled her to
dress while he remained in the room.
Miss McClug’s parents live in Port
Angeles. She has lived in Seattle for
about two years, and has been employ
ed in various downtown department
stores.
She spent one year in Alaska as
night nurse in the hospital of the Cop
per River & Northwestern railroad at
Cordova.
The girl appeared Friday afternoon
as a witness against Mrs. Nellie De
Vorss, charged In Justice Brinker's
court with shoplifting. Mrs. DeVoross
was convicted and fined $50.
At midnight Thursday, the evening
before the trial of Mrs. DeVoross the
latter woman appeared at police head
quarters in company with a man.
Complains to Headquarters.
The man said a girl had robbed him
of his watch.
Mrs. DeVorss told the police she had
seen the watch in the possession of
Miss McClurg.
Detective McLennan accompanied
the pair to the Oxford hotel to arrest
the girl. There was no warrant is
sued.
“The detective, after the clerk had
refused to let him come up to my
room, called me from the hotel office
on the telephone,” Miss McClurg said
to a Star reporter. "He said he vjould
give me five minutes to dress and go
to the station with him.
■'It couldn’t, have been a half min
A. 1 . i.
tite afterward that he pounded on my
door. I had slipped on a kimono, and
I went to the door and opened it a
little. The detective then pushed his
way In, and ordered me to dress.
Stays In Her Room.
"He styed right In the room with
me. Finally I took some of my clothes;
into a small bathroom that opens off j
my room, and dressed In there, hut I]
had to do it with the door open.
"He wouldn’t even allow me even to
close the door.”
McLennan than walked with her
to the station, she says. Outside the
hotel they met Mrs. DeVross and the
man who said Miss McCIurg had stolen
his watch.
This couple got into an auto, the
girl says, and kept pace with them all
the way to headquarters.
There McLennan and other detec
tives bullied her for an hour and a
half, Miss McCIurg asserts, trying to
get from her a confession that she had
stolen the man’s watch.
Finally, at 3 a. m., they decided
they “had nothing her” and released
her.
Spends Evening With Friend.
Miss McCIurg had spent the evening
before, when she was declared to have
stolen the watch, at the home of a
friend, Mrs. Martha Metz, 199 Fifth
ave. N. She declares the whole af
fair was engineered to discredit her
testimoney in the DeVqross case.
Detective McLennan would not
admit to the Star Saturday that he
forced his way into the girl's room.
He says she asked him to come in.
He stated, however, that he stayed j
in her room while she put her clothes j
on in the bathroom adjoining.
After it was all over, he said, and he!
had heard about the DeVoross case ‘
that was to come up on the day fol-j
lowing, he made up his mind that the
girl was innocent.
Girl in Nervous State.
Miss McCIurg is still in a highly
nervous state as a result of her ex
perience.
“I never was inside a jail or a police
station before in my life,” she de
clared. "Neither was I ever subjected
to such indignities as were forced
upon me by Detective McLennan, and :
the things that were said to me while
the detectives were trying at head-;
quarters to make me confess to a j
crime I knew nothing about.”
LOCAL JOTTINGS.
Nathaniel Greene, of Cordova Pow
er Company, will leave on the steam
er Alameda to visit his daughter, Miss
Dorothy Greene, In San Francisco and
also to attend the fair. He expects to
gone until November 1.
Good progress is being made by
Bartley Howard in building the wagon
road to the Old Town.
Nels Smith and James Kennedy
have taken the contract to float the
gas launch Favorite of Douglas, which
Is beached near Yakutat.
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The Woman's Society of Church
Workers will hold their first social nt
the Manse Wednesday afternoon at
2:30. All members of the society and
friends are cordially Invited.
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Jack A. Jdhnson will be an outgoing
passenger on the Alameda for San
Francisco, where he will spend a
month or two.
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