Detroit evening times., 1945-09-20

take place IN the morning We ,cH shoot uou then ua-
less you decide to tax IN the meantime"
drew long breath heart began TO SLOW down and
took the place of the fear I'd felt Had
the bindfoid would nave taken chance of smuggling
prefer then
had been the point of breaking suppose but felt
strength
l said myself:
f you boys don't shoot me now you won't shoot me in
the morning In the meantime, If Nelson gets chance to
get out of here he's taking it,"
two guards marched me back to my cell and removed
the bindfod 1t about $50 the evening April
They brought ham sandwiches, couple those
vegetable sandwiches and cup of coffee The food
good worried little about it being doped, but ate it
anyway.
VXTHEN I finished the coffee guard standing outside
w pointed at the cup and made signs. couldn't under
stand what he meant handed him the cup through the
bars. He went away and came back with another cup Of
coffee He little fellow, about "a 25 years OLD.
hadn't heard of Hallmark Meder of course, during
the hours questioned but after finished eating
Hallmas voice down the corridor They putting him
in his cell then. Those fellows received the
did and though didn't know it at the moment the Japs
getting set for of the erdeaIs the
whole
At Just about s o'clock three guards entered mn
cell They rere husky teii0US and completely UpGSsire
IKE those N the torture room They examined the hand
pushed me oUer to rGH IN the cell and raised my
above nty head.
There a peg the wall and they boosted
and hung the by the chain OF the handouts
When they let touched the ground
enough to use any pressure to the strain
Inc GUARDS ulun say a WOTo Iney looked AT me mo-
men and then turned and left the CELL locking the door
Panic seized then. didnt think could
stand that punishment Uery long.
THERE wasn't thing to do If struggled merely hurt
l. myself In a few minutes the pain in my wrists
was so intense that almost sick my stomach Then
abs of pain began shoot through my chest shoulders
think shouted several times but that didn't do any
good
don't know how long hung there before passed out
but know of the night. There
periods of consciousness but the entire night like horrible
dream in my memory.
They took me down at o'clock the morning. could
not stand at first but legs recovered very However
had of my rey~ueely hung at my sides and
all done in dirty and tired and wondered anything
worth this kind of treatment.
The guards put my bindfOd back and led me into
rather large where the blindfold Hall
mark and Meder there looking pretty grim
All of us had grown beards the Hornet but kept
them trimmed and clean. Now looked like tramps.
We couldn't talk each other but gave the thumbs up
sign and felt little better. Misery loves company.
TINE Jap officers seemed to be pretty wary Of the whole
thing themselves. They did not talk any more about
execution They asked individually had anything
say and we shook heads
Then we got some breakfast-sandwches and cofeeand
blndfoded again. We taken by automobile
airport and loaded Jap transport plane.
Each in separate seat handcuffed blndfolded
and with his elbows strapped the seat plus the usual safety
belt
could little bit out of my blindfold and seemed
to be flying toward the II about o'clock the
morning of April 25 and figured Tokyo was the goal.
(TOMORRow-Capt. Nielsen relates encounter with a
japanese named oara University Columbia graduate
tells Of torture in Tokyo)
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