The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1904-08-03
HOW TWO JAPANESE SPIES FACED DEATH.
Officers of the General Staff Won the Admiration and
Pity of Their Executioners

have received from a Russian sailor
recently returned from Hardin some
hitherto unpublished details of the exc
eution of the two japanese spies ar
rested by some COsSacks as they were
about to blow up bridge on the Man
ohurian railroad, writes NJ. PraVdlne
in lie Petit Temps.
Nv informant is a young man VINO
was severely wounded during the hrst
Commandment of Port Arthur. lie Cd
tained permission to go to Italy 10 con-
yaIesce from his wound, but before his
denartlre he made q short stay with
some officers, relations of his, at Har-
hin. where he arrived just at the time
when the japanese were arrested, tax
on in the act, condemned and executed.
You were present at the execution
of the two Japanese?" l asked him.
ALAS! ! saw them die" answered
the young sailor.
And as l looked at him with aston
3shment he FASTENED to add
DO not take me for an anarchist. l
am. on the contrary, an ardent patriot,
and eagerly Ionged for the war Win
Japan. l longed to see the japanese
axterminated, and | desired that we
might be able to dictate terms OF peace
TO them at Tokyo But, like all my
comrades. on seeing those two Japan
csc officers die by the bullets of our
soldiers, courageously sacrificing their
lives for their country, l could not but
think their execution cruel"
Were you present at the trlalF
81 saw the two spies arrested; l was
present at the trial and at the eXecu-
ton. l can give you all the details or
IL for the dreadful spectacle haunts me
and cannot forget it," y
And in half an hour the wounded
officer, pausing only when the pain or
mis- right knee, wounded by the burst
ing of a Japanese shell and from which
the splinters had not yet been removed,
became too keen, narrated to me the
following events:
Il can give my testimony that, when
The two prisoners were brought INTO
the little room of the Chinese tanSa,
Transformed into a courtroom by the
I.arbin council of war, both the judges
and the public-the latter composed al
most ex, ,usively of offiCers-could not
avoid man;festing openly their enthusl-
aA'iC admiration for them.
md, indeed, those men were actu-
ated by the most noble sentiments.
They had resolved as patriots, to make
- IN q victory
their side, and, as soldiers, under SUI
pprior orders, they went to meet GER
tain death. The trial took the ordinary
course. The arguments on either side
offered nothing Of interest, the prls-
orlers having loudly, and not without
patriotic pride, assumed the RESPONSE
bility of the crime of which they were
accused. They gave their names and
their titles without the slightest tremor
of the voice:
"Tchomo Jokoka, forty-four years OF
age. colonel of the general staff, gradu
ated with honors from the military
high school of Jeddo,' said the elder OF
the prisoners, a short stout man, with
q strong face.
"'Teisko Jokki, thirty-One years OF
age, captain, attached to the general
staff said his companion, who was
taller and more slender in figure than
the other, with angular features and q
very dark complexion, casting a slight
y disdainful glance around the court
room.
buddhist he added, after a mo-
ments silence.
land you, colonel asked the presi
dent of the council; you are of the
same religion as your fellow prisoners
"'No, president, l am a Christian.
And observing the astonishment pro
duced on every one by this declaration
he FASTENED to add:
But | am true Japanese, born o