The Archive · 1935

First Kidnapping

The kidnapped boy was the subject lof an attack on November 18, 1932, when apparently the same gang) seized him on the footpath outside [374 Chemulpo Road, near his father's Jpawnshop, and carried him off in a hhair-ear. The kidnappers took the Exactly 243 years after "Forty-seven rondo," immortalized in Japancee history and folklore, put to death Prince Kozuke Hira, thus avenging the insult to their "Daimio," Prince [Takumi Asano, local' Japanese school children honoured the memory of the Jneroes in a solemn ceremony on Saturday morning.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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