The Osaka Courts are trying, one Yamamoto, who is charged with the murder of a seventeen-old. Ind named Seo, The deceased wis an unmate of an institution, establish-fed by the Mitsuis, for the protection of juveniles, the accused an official employed there. Young Seo, with other lads belonging to this institu tion, stole some copper from a neigiouring temple, and the accused, hearing of this, tried to wring a confession from him. The latter stubbornly refused to admit the theft, whereupon Yamamoto stripped the boy naked, subjected him to en hour's torture, and cuspend=d im by his hands from a pine tree, leaving him in: that position -al!
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