| Show BD WEIRD IRD TALE TAIt OF JAP JS 18 DISCREDITED J J. Tano Yono a a. Japanese watchman for U. U 13 II Hashimoto at ut West South Temple Templo Street who ho told a weird talo tale of ot having having- been attacked by two yO robbers ut ul S U o cluck o'clock Tuesday night bound mind ond Ia gagged ged and tortured In a n fiendish manner until I o'clock thu next because us ho Ito Would not reveal the limo combination of or tim tho safe naff wa was wan token taken to the police station b by l Detectives Se tie Seager Jer and Cleveland shortly after noon today tody arid and was put through a a. smelling gruelling test teat of ot trying to show tho the police pollee how ho had extricated himself after the robbers had left Idt him The Time of- of fiers suspected that his tale talc was not al altogether mU- mU together correct find arid after r nad tried for COl or sonic some lime to tu show how huts ho he had hod ac accomplished the Impossible chan changed c chis his statements until at thu the he lie had bath told eo ec man many stories 15 he lie didn't know which ones he lie had lied told himself Tho rhu police arc are now firmly e c n that thai tho tim Jap JaIl told an Impossible talc tale and andare andare are trying to figure put pul Just just why he lie framed up the phony robbery which they Say nay It undoubtedly Is 18 The Jap said yesterday the neighboring merchants had found and anti released him when a 11 search failed railed to reveal the man who turned him loose house he claimed that he hind had sawed flawed the tho towel with which he was Vas tied on on the edge of the Iron bed bod Inthe Inthe in inthe the room Upon a thorough Investigation by De- De Sea Scarcer Seager er and anti Cleveland It H was va-s shown that th the strap which he claimed wan was buckled around his legs won was too short to go o around twice and If lf II i only put around once there was no mio hole bole In Inc str strap p that tho would fast fasten n It tightly to keep It on on his legs legH The gag which ho he claimed was put under his chin and tied In his mouth was WM not long ong enough to go so around In the manner in which he ho said paid It had Imad been placed place l- l Tho The towel that had Imad 1 been een used to tor bind his lila hands behind his back and the tIme one ono which he said ld he had sawed In two on the edge of the bed was found to have ve een cut with a Q knife Tho The Jap then tried tiled to explain that he had only sawed one ono end but there was VIlS no sign of or the other end having been sawed The Jap claimed also that he had saved a. a diamond ring which ho was wearing at atthe atthe atthe the time by pushing It oft with Ills his thumb of or the same slIn hand hond and throwing it under the bed while the robbers were beating him This stunt he also alpo tried for tor the benefit of th tIme the police and tho the reporters and he lie found It was impossible He Hel then tried to explain that ho Ito had put his hand under the bed and caught the tho ring on the tp rings and pulled Dulled it off orr in that mannel mannet man man- net ner His Ills watch he also saved by doing a sleight of oC hand stunt wh when n th time the robbers were engaged and threw that under the tho bed The two watches that were fr from m the premises were the property of or orsome some oth other othor r clerks in the tho establishment That hat robbery was not the motive or of Yamo was WIlS explained by bt Hashimoto this morning He snit said that Yamo had w worked for him for tor many years and that he had always alway found hint him truthful and honest and that the time night In question he had been left crt in charge or of the days day's receipts amounting to something over 00 0 O. O this monc money being locked in the desk In the office Another link In iii the time stor story which makes It look false Is la th the statement of or Patrolman Patrolman Patrol Patrol- man Jul Jukes Jokes es wh who said sald ho called on Yamo at 4 I o'clock In the morning In question and anti naked asked the Jap Is is everything was all allright allright right and the time Jap Jop replied In the tho tive The Jap says say that It was 6 o'clock when the policeman called and that he ho told him at the time that he had been robb robbed b by two men This patrolman Jukes emphatically denies |
