Too Much Jiu Jitsu For O’Donnell – 1905
Too Much Jiu Jitsu For O’Donnell
Jap Tells How He Captured A Burglar Who Was In His Bedroom.
Michael O’Donnell was found guilty of burglary yesterday afternoon in the district court and was sentenced to one year in the penitentiary. Deputy Ed Larsen left last night with the prisoner for Deer Lodge.
Michael O’Donnell is a victim of the justly famous Japanese jiu jitsu. He attempted to rob a Japanese boarding house on Railroad avenue last May and received a little warmer welcome than he expected.
T. Y. Nakagawa, the proprietor of the boarding house, was sleeping the sleep of the more or less just when at an early morning hour he was awakened by a noise at a cabinet which stood in his bedroom. Nakagawa had $1,300 in that cabinet and when he awoke to find a strange man in the room in the act of going through the drawers, he began operations at once. With a bound he was out of bed and upon the poor, frightened burglar. The Jap used Rule 24 of the book on Japanese jiu jitsu. He combined the famous wrist pinch with the cross-collar hold and within a short time O’Donnell was pleading for mercy with his eyes, as he could not speak.
When O’Donnell had been properly subdued, Nakagawa stepped back and picked up a revolver. The fact that the gun was empty did not matter; O’Donnell did not know that, and he was perfectly willing to be quiet so long as the doughty Jap kept that terrible jitsu business to himself.
Nakagawa called to his countrymen to fetch an officer and soon O’Donnell was in the custody of Policemen Sargent and Huckaba. He feigned drunkenness then and told the officers that he was drunk and that he did not know what he was doing.
T. Muira acted as interpreter for A. M. Kitaguchi, a Jap who could not speak English. The stories told by the witnesses for the state were connected and straightforward. O’Donnell admitted that he entered the Nakagawa house, but offered as his excuse that he was intoxicated.
The jury was out only 20 minutes when a verdict of guilty was brought in. The court asked the prisoner if he wished to be sentenced at once and he replied that he did.
The above article appeared in The Daily Missoulian on September 17, 1905
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