Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-03 | Page 18 | German Spies Cout out Man's [Illegible]

GERMAN SPIES CUT 4 OUT MAN'S TONGUI ., Captured Russian who Refuses to Giv J, Desired Information Is Mutilated. n ( Special Cable to The Tribune. PETROGRAP, Oct. 2. How Germain spies cut out a man's tongue is relate In a series of affidavits collected by th g procurator of the Kharoli assize courlF A man named Matvei Posnakofr" wa stopped by two strsngers In civlllal clothes, who asked him questions t J broken Russian about the czar's troops, j Posnnkoff refused to give Infnrmatini J and one of the men drew a revolver an I threatened him with instant death. I The unfortunate man eventually ad 0 mltted that, so far as he knew, the mill Htla was not fighting. "We have plent IL of troops," he added, "bufc I don't knoiP where thev are." As&hi the men threat ened to kill him if he persisted In with holding the information- They asked hlr,, whether he was married, and lo t his h'i ' rapUed in the affirmative, saying hp haV a wife and four children. J "Then we will only cut out you tongue." sild one of the Germans. Th" wretched man was seized by the throa, by one of the men whilst the other cu his tongue. He lost consciousness am when he recovered his senses he fouiv. himself hound to a tree, from which affl er a time he succeeded in loosening him1 self. Fie was too weak to walk, but after rest he. managed to make his way to thll Russian lines, where by means of writ! in- and gestures he related his horrihlli story.