At the police station in Kemeido, Tokio, another orgy of murder was indulged in, this time by police and soldiers, who confess to the killings and declare that they were perfectly justified under the circumstances in so doing, though relatives of the murdered people declare that the police and the soldiers let the Vigilantes amongst the men who had been herded in a narrow room in the police station and that it was these Vigilantes that despatched the men with all the savagery that a blood-thirsty mob could command. Some 1,300 odd alleged radicals and desperadoes were taken into custody soon after the earthquake. Fourteen of this number were locked up in small room, and, about mid-1 night, according to one of those imprisoned in another part of the police station, who was fortunate enough to escape the fury of police, troops and mobs of Vigila sites. 'I heard terrible screams.
Locking out of the window, I saw a man fall and steely white blades flashing in the darkness." All these 14 were murdered, and their bodies removed under cover of night and burned—which rather takes away a good deal of the alleged justification in killing the men, Since attempts were made to cover up the crime."
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