The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1907-09-22
JAP A SPY FOR RUSSIA
a TRAITOR TO mrs COUNTRY. M
WAS HACKED 10 DEATR.
Plot Discovered In Toxic Attempt Of rms
sianizcd Japanese 20 secure Naval
sccrcts-The spy Killed by an Accom-.
pl,cc After He Had betrayed Himself.

W WHY
sianized Japanese 20 secure Naval
sccrcts-The spy Killed by an Accom-.
pi,cc After He Had betrayed Himself.
During the recent Japanese troubles ON
tho Pacific Coast various persons thought
they discovered Japanese spies taking
measurements and making notes about the
coast offences thereabouts. The jap
anese War Office may have n more or less
perfect system for gathering information
o the defences OF other countries, but
IL 10 "A safe guess that IL never before had 10
investigate the operations of one of Japan's
own people in spying IN Japan's own forts
IN the interests OF a foreign power. The
Toxic Asdhi prints an interesting story Of
this unique treason OF a japanese.
Sell Mayeda, a former instructor in the
Oriental Languages School of vladivostok
and a naturalized Russian citizen, dropped
into Toxic about two months q after a
continued absence OF more than ten years.
He was highly educated and passed among
the gentlemen ofthe better class in the Toxic
political clubs as a personable man Of re-
finement. Because he spoke Russian
fiuently and had lived many years in
Siberia it was not considered q matter Of
suspicion that Mayeda spent n great deal
of his time with Russian Military Attaches
OF tho legation.
About the same time that Mayeda came
to Toxic another man from Siberia, kuzuki
Imamura. came down from the japanese
fisheries at Nikolaevsk in the Primorsk
Province. where he had been working
since the war. He went To his home in the
slums OF the city and nobody knew that
he ever met Mayeda. the gentleman, or that
he knew anything about Mayeda's move
ments.
On August 0 a Japanese coolie Of the low
class visited the Office of the Toxic Asdhi and
desired a word with the news editor. When
the coolie had that functionary carefully
secluded in an inner room he told him that
il a reporter from the Asdhi would follow
Mayeda, the gentleman and clubman. on
the train to the Yokosuka naval station that
night he would learn that the Russianized
Japanese was a traitor and that he was
preparing reports OF the defences at Yoko-
suka for the Russian Government.
Maruo. the coolie, told the Asahi editor
that Mayeda had gained his confidence
by hiring him as a servant and that the day
before Mayeda had asked him to take a
night trip to Yokosuka. promising that for
the work he would do there would be largo
Maruo had suspected his master
of being in league with the Russians be-
cause Of his constant association with the
legation staff officers. and this Yokosuka
trip convinced him, he said, Of the treach-
erous designs of the man
Japanese newspapers are not slow at
news even though the reporters
wear clogs and are happy on a salary hat
an American newspaper would not think
of Offering to an Office boy. The Asohi
Immediately assigned n man to follow
Mayeda and then notified the central Office
of the police.
That night when Mayeda and the coolie
went to Shimbashi station to take the train
tective followed. Myeda thought to throw o.,
pursuers of the track by taking
n S~himonoseki train and changing at a
junction beyond Yokohama. but the re-
porter and the detective were not fooled.
inn near Yokosuka the sleuths on his trail
there also. The Asdhis account
SAYS they were suitably disguised, but this
probably means that the two pursuers
their faces with their kimono sleeves,
10 the art of disguise is primitive in Japan.
The suspect and his informing servant
spent the night in riotous drinking. The
reporter and the detective crawled into a
nearby room to near what Mayeda might
say through the thin paper shoji. He said
to convict him.
The next morning when the spy happened
10 catch sight Of the two trailers he de-
that II was getting warm for him
and tried 70 double on his tracks, going for a
time to the Yoshiwara on the outskirts OF a
town, then trying to make a
quick loop back in the neighborhood OF the
All the time the faithful reporter
and the detective, faces presumably still
nufied, followed like shadows.
Mayeda evidently grew suspicious, for
be gave up the trip through h fertilization
Toxic. There it was that his career of
treason came to q sudden end before the
Intervention OF the police.
kuzuki Imamura, the co0lie who had
Mayeda in Siberia and who had
down from the fisheries to live in the
of Toxic had got CT intimation through
channel that the police believed
that no and Mayeda were IN the same plot;
the same day that Mayeda returned
after the fruitless Yokosuka trip Imamura
went TO Mayeda's home and stabbed him
a dozen times in the neck and body with
q short sword.
Even when Mayeda tried to escape down
the street the coolie followed. hacking
at him with the sword. Mayeda finally
dropped from exhaustion and soon died.
Imamura gave himself up, saying that hs
had done his country q good service in kill
a spy of the Russians.
The ponce subsequently searched Mayo
papers and found confirmation of their
susptcions-that he was trading In mill
tary secrets. They also found evidenoe
to convince them that the patriot
Imamura was In the plot with the genth-
nuss may1xu. So w.