He is then measured, "mugged," and, if lucky, turned loose.

What does his liberty amount to or his much-vaunted legal rights if the city is to be made safe?
Yet why does not some apostle of liberty raise his voice and cry aloud concerning the wrong that has been done?
Are not the rights of a beggar as sacred as those of a bishop?
One of the most sacred rights guaranteed under the law is that of not being compelled to give evidence against ourselves or to testify to anything which might degrade or incriminate us.

Now, this is all very fine for the chap who has his lawyer at his elbow or has had some similar previous experience.

He may wisely shut up like a clam and set at defiance the tortures of the third degree.

But how about the poor fellow arrested on suspicion of having committed a murder, who has never heard of the legal provision in question, or, if he has, is cajoled or threatened into "answering one or two questions"?
Few police officers take the trouble to warn those whom they arrest that what they say may be used against them.