What is the use?
Of course, when they testify later at the trial they inevitably begin their testimony with the stereotyped phrase, "I first warned the defendant that anything which he said might be used against him." If they did warn him they probably whispered it or mumbled it so that he didn't hear what they said, or, in any event, whether they said it or not, half a dozen of them probably took him into a back room and, having set him with his back against the wall, threatened and swore at him until he told them what he knew, or thought he knew, and perhaps confessed his crime.

When the case comes to trial the police give the impression that the accused quietly summoned them to his cell to make a voluntary statement.

The defendant denies this, of course, but the evidence goes in and the harm has been done.

No doubt the methods of the inquisition are in vogue the world over under similar conditions.

Everybody knows that a statement by the accused immediately upon his arrest is usually the most important evidence that can be secured in any case.