Turner Tells Of Torture.

New York Times 100 years ago today, March 2, 1913:
Writes That Diaz Threatened Him Three Times with Death.
    GIRARD, Kan.. March 1.— According to a letter received here to-day by F. D. Warren, editor of The Appeal to Reason, and credited by him to John Kenneth Turner, the American writer imprisoned in the City of Mexico in the recent revolt, Mr. Turner suffered torture at the hands of Gen. Felix Diaz.
    The letter states that Mr. Turner three times was threatened with death by shooting and was robbed and imprisoned, and that his appeal to the American Ambassador for aid was futile.