Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1912-11-21 | Page 7 | Jap Remains True to Ancestors and Ignores Torture

lAP REMAINS TRUE i TO ANCESTORS AND IGNORES TORTURE p Yano Refuses to D Dp Di Divulge Divulge Di- Di p- p Safes Safe's Combination Despite Inhuman Acts Burned with matches his hs fin finger ers I and wrists twisted and beaten with c a 0 L blackjack tortures which I continued through eight long loner hours o othe ot the night Yano a Japanese watchman refused to furnish twO footpads footpads foot foot- footpads pads the combination or of the sate safe In tho the mercantile store of or E. E D. D Hashimoto 16 S. S West iVest Templo Temple street which ho he hohas has guarded for several months When Yano Yono entered the store storo at o'clock Tuesday nl night ht ho says the thO blow of ot a revolver felled him to the thC floor Recovering Recovering- from his stupor he declares ho found himself in the thc grip The dra dragged him of two burglars burglars- They I before the thc safe sate and b by making signals explained that unless he tol told 1 them the tho combination to the safe sate thc they would torture him to death For commercial co convenience Yano had been familiarized with the sate safe combination but how V two footpads came In possession of oC this Information is mystifying V Yano was discovered tie tied hand and foot at nt S o'clock yesterday morning in inthe the store where whore he was attacked He had bad succeeded in chewing to pieces a I cloth gag but thongs which bound hound him i hand and foot were so 80 secure securely knotted they had to be cut His head was badly bruised d an and 1 he boro other marks of or the torture The police were in informed Informed informed In- In formed and according to Detectives v George E E. Cleveland eland and B. B H H. Seaser Seager the attempt to force tho Japanese watchman into furnishing the combination tion to the safe Involves one ono of or the most daring attempts at robbery robber In the recent history of or Salt Lake told b the Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- At first the stor story tol by anese nele appeared lurid to tho the police de detective do- do but hut soon he lie furnished evidence of ot the thc thongs thons which bound hound him and a R heap of ot burnt matches He lie says sars both his assailants were masked and that the room In which the torture took tool place was so dark ho ha could obtain but butan an unsatisfactory description of at his as as- as Yano says as a's his torture lasted hasted until o'clock in the morning when the footpads left leU Realizing Idealizing that torture was as futile the footpads finally loosened the clothing on the Jap and removed from a belt strung about his bod body 20 O. O The They stole his diamond pin worth 30 and confiscated confiscated confiscated a gold Jold watch In hope of or finding some trace of the assailants of or the Japanese Japanese Japanese Jap Jap- anese detectives searched er e every corner of or the tho city cUy yesterday but to no avail a