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SWEEPIN G IN V ESTIG ATION. TAR AND FEATHERS INCIDENT. SY GABLE-PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHI NEW YORK, June 23. Sweeping investigations are being conducted by the Los Angeles authorities in connection with an alleged assault upon M. Kawamoto, his wife, and Y. Naito. which is referred to in Tokio despatches as the “tar and feathers incident.” The sheriff declared that, although they were assaulted, tar and feathers were not used. An investigation revealed that a crowd of ten women and six men visited Kawamoto’s home, and demanded that they leave the neighbourhood. Kawamoto, his wife and Naito were then beaten, and one member of the crowd threatened to use a gun. Kawamoto escaped, and telephoned to the sheriff. The crowd dispersed before the officers arrived. In connection with the death of two Japanese, Kachini Igarishi and Tomo Yoshioka, near San Pedro, the officials maintain that these grew out of a war waged between gamblers and bootleggers.—Reuter.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 7
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155JAPANESE Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 25 June 1924, Page 7
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