Koreans Allege Torture.

New York Times 100 years ago today, November 28, 1912:
Detract Confessions They Made at First Trial of Conspiracy Case.
    SEOUL, Nov. 27.— The outstanding feature of this morning's sitting of the court that is trying the 106 Korean prisoners charged with conspiring in 1910 and 1911 against Gov.-Gen. Count Terauchi's life was the wholesale retraction by Kimiljun of the evidence he gave at the former trial. He at that time admitted that he desired to kill Gov.-Gen. Terauchi and implicated'! a number of leaders. Kimiljun calmly asserted this morning that this was a tissue of lies. "In explanation he said he was insane during the last trial and had been driven to make the statements by the treatment to which he was subjected by the police.
    Kimiljun was sentenced at the first trial to seven years' imprisonment.
    Six other prisoners were also examined in the course of the day. All of them told the same story, retracting the confessions they had made before the Procurator and asserting that they had been tortured by the police. They described the various methods of treatment adopted by the police to obtain their confessions.