Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1919 — Japanese Wanted to Make Suicide Certain [ARTICLE]

Japanese Wanted to Make Suicide Certain

With a strange, almost demoniacal ritual. Kumatro Sakamoto ended his life at Los Angeles. Cal. Sakamoto, who - came from Japan ten years ago, suffered from tuberculosis. He was thir-ty-nine years old, but was not married, and had no friends nor relatives. He decided to die. •that he might utter no warning cry, he first cut off his tongue. * That faulty might not stop the deed, he cut off his nose. Then he hacked his throat with the razor until he dropped unconscious. V . When found In his room, he was lying In a pool of blood. He died alx hours later in a hospital. v