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V -in |tsj)V I« 1r* jr, j a-1or jit •tieC* shr :■t- ijn j v- jto!orit*y-totehforlendewhoor-HI-of-astthe Ohioan would winTry Mi Japanese For Flier’s DeathYOKOHAMA hr SixteenJapanese, including two women and a former general, pleaded innocent before an eighth army military commission today to charges they participated in a mob attack m which a wounded American flier whs killed near the end ot the wa r.They are charged with being part of a mob which beat, tortured, mutilated and finally killed 2nd Lt. John V Scaniar., Jr , Lexington, Kv after his P-51 was shot down just north of Tokyo June 23, 1945American Prosecutor Thomas C. Fisher, Middletown. Kv.. charged in affidavits from residents of Chiba, where the pilot landed, that I one of the women, Ta/uko Ishihara.; acted with crazed violence during the beating The other woman. Wakao Hamhara was accused of beating Scanlan with her wooden j clogsThe Atneru an and a Japanese lighter pilot both crashed after they engaged in an aerial duel over Chiba Scanlan, who was seriously injured, was taken to a Japanese ar-my dispensary for treatment.A mob gathered, demanding the American be turned over to them. On the advice of Major Hoshio Shingo, the prosecution charged.Col Chiyoshi Shimoda orderedScanlan delivered to the mob.
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Norwalk Reflector Herald
Norwalk, Ohio, US
Mon, Apr 12, 1948
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