All Allege Torture.

New York Times 100 years ago today, December 6, 1912:
Korean Prisoners' Testimony Not Believed by Their Own Counsel.
    SEOUL, Dec. 5.— Tales of torture by the police formed practically the only testimony given by the four Koreans called to the stand for examination to-day at the continuation of the trial of the 106 Koreans accused of conspiring against the life of Gov. Gen. Terauchi in 1910 and 1911.
    Forty-two of the accused have now undergone examination at the new trial, and all of them have repeated the same story as to the methods adopted by the police.
    At the close of to-day's proceedings Takuzo Hanai, the most prominent counsel for the defense, intervened on behalf of one of his clients, who had admitted on the stand to-day that he had given false testimony at the first trial, and had pleaded that he had been induced to do so by the tortures inflicted on him by the police. Counsel urged the court to obtain facts which were really material to the defense, such as alibis, and the evidence of neighbors and friends of the accused. He said:
    "I have heard many of the prisoners say they were tortured, but we counsel do not believe such stories, which are ineffective for the defense."