Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1909-10-29 | Page 3 | Korean Boy Assaulted

KOREAN Bof BOY ASSAULTED Ii Hoodlums Beat Student and Break Windows and the Police Do DoNot DoNot DoNot Not Act Set upon by a gang of hoodlums on Sec See Second Second ond South street between Main and State streets Kim a Korean boy who attends the night session at the Union school was beaten and robbed of 15 1 at a late hour night Cries of oC Kill the Jap were started by the youthful rowdies when Kim approached with hU hie hl schoolbooks under his aim arm and before he could defend himself he had been at attacked attacked attacked tacked from behind and knocked down I The thugs timers quickly rifled his pockets tak taking takIng taking ing 15 which he had saved to buy books i A newsboy Interceded for the Korean youth and said This aint no Jap hes a n Korean but the mercy shown by the I newsy did not have the effect eff t of stop stopping stopping stopping ping the brutal assault until twenty min minutes mm utes or more had haf elapsed and the boy had been pummelled almost insensible I A B Kesler K principal of the Union school states thit hoodlums have been I having their own way in the neighborhood j of his school and that recently fifteen windows were broken in one night by the gang I There has been no police pollee interference