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Show YOUTH FOILED IN HOLDUP .... . . I ... ; Jack Webb, ) Bingham youth was arrested Tuesday night after he is alleged to have held up the Jap camp house at Boston Con. hill and seized about fifty dollars from the money drawer. In the melee that followed, sev eral Jap patrons of the place ga thered around ,"VVebb and while one of them back of him made a noise to attract his attention another an-other Jap is said to have knocked him down. .Then they all pounced pounc-ed upon him and took his gun from him. When Webb was disarmed, dis-armed, things began to happen. A rope was procured and the Japs proceeded to . bind Webb to a large "post in the middle of the room. When his feet and hands were bound fast to the post, they pounded, beat and cut him until he was barely recognizable. Webb's face, head, hands and bodv were cut as if with a blunt instrument, presumably with his gun. They also poured hot boiling boil-ing water over him so he relates .and pounded him uniiil he was senseless . The sheriff's office was then called and John Knut-son Knut-son with chief of police Sorensen went to the camp and removed Webb first to the hospital, for medical treatment and then to jaiU ...vv.: V SwaKhed in bandages, at the city jail, Webb related his experience ex-perience and how he had wished they had killed him rather than to have stood the torture to which he was submitted. Webb who claims to be 20 has a wife here. He has had trouble before according o reports, and is now on parol from the State Prison. i - |