Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 February 1915 — Little Japanese Woman Overcomes Eight Policemen [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Little Japanese Woman Overcomes Eight Policemen

LOS ANGELES.—Eight policemen with braced legs and defensive attitudes were torn from their footing and tossed into a pile by a 112-pound woman, Mrs. Sessu Hayawakawa (Tsuru Aoki) in a demonstration at police head-

quarters to show the efficiency of the jiu-jitsu system. As a result of the startling efficiency shown by the small Japanese expert in contest with the burliest of policemen Chief Sebastian has employed Sessu Hayawakawa to coach the members of the department in jiu-jitsu. In the assembly room at Central police station the demonstration of his prowess was given by Mr. Hayawakawa. He aSked four of the largest policemen present to attack him.

“Use your billies," he shouted as the four men bore down on him. A tangle of legs and arms, sliding, scraping and flying figures, and Hayawakawa was at the other end of the room, four billies were lying on the floor, and the four policemen were looking in different directions for their man. "A woman can do it just ap easily," the wrestler explained, and introduced bis wife. Sergeant O’Brien, considered one of the strongest and quickest men in the department, was selected to strike her with the club. The lean brown arm of the woman struck. It caught the burly policeman in a trick hold and the club flew from the grasp. A jerk of her No. 2 shoe and a twist of her back and Sergeant O’Brien spilled over her, alighting on his back. Then she stood the squad of eight men in line, told them to prepare themselves against an attack, and then, apparently, she fluttered past them. Sixteen heels left the floor in startling succession. The eight were in a pile and Mrs. Hayawakawa was at the other end of the room.