MURDER CONFESSED.
TORTURE BY JAPANESE. REVENGE ON EMPLOYER. JN'ISW YORK. Dec. 25. Poughkeepsie was the sccno of a curious murder to-day. Gentro iikiyama, a Japanese butler, enraged at losing liis position, killed John Schatz, a wealthy manufacturer. Mrs. Florence Carozza, who was Schatz's companion in his mansion, told a grisly tale of torture. She said that when the Japanese returned from his last evening out, Schatz asked him to prepare sonic sandwiches, and discharged him upon his refusal to make them. At daylight this morning the Japanese invaded their bedroom, struck Schatz over the head with a bottle, and then invited his woman companion to watch the torture. The Japanese twisted a butcher's knife in his employer's mouth, and smashed his fingers into pulp with a hammer. In a subsequent struggle a telephone instrument was knocked off the table, and central exchange heard screams »nd called th® police. The Japanese confessed his crime..
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVIII, Issue 21069, 31 December 1931, Page 7
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