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er-?enbe-ooltig.nger,iresixLocal Vet's Death May Be Avenged;ahe53-The Intelligencer received a lengthy communication and letter today from general headquarters of the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers stating that 16 jLtiJapanese have been rounded up i,. be'as participants in acts which red- suited in the death of Sgt. CarrollgeayenF, Spindier, 26, probably from mistreatment in a prison camp in the Philippines. Nearly three years ago the Intelligencer told of Spindler's or death, recorded as of Dec. 14, 1944.’ie The.communication states that., i investigators worked three years jt ld,on the case and those held range's rs; from lieutenant generals down to ;one private. The communication3- [states that many of the Japs who □ st participated in the deaths of 139nsoldiers probably lost their own lives when the American forces recaptured the Philippine Islands. One other died later.Eleven of the Americans escap- r. ed and three of the group will appear personally at trials before a 3, military commission in Yokohama, r, Statements from others will be in- v f- troduced.The Investigation has gone far ;t enough to permit specific charges against the Japanese soldiers, e Nine general methods are listed h - as having caused death. They to- jv elude burning with lighted gaso- h q line, dynamiting, hand-grenading, !ti t, clubbing, bayonetttog, beheading, jlf '• shooting with machine guns, shoot- -si jing with rifles and drowning. Jh
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Edwardsville Intelligencer
Edwardsville, Illinois, US
Thu, Aug 19, 1948
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