St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-14
A JAPANESE HORROR.
TEN PERSONS MURDERED IN A SNAIL
VILLAGE.
THE BODIES ALL MUTILATED.
Villagers Who Went to the Res
cue Driven or by the Fiends-
Young and Old SIain-A We
man the Cause OF the BuIchery.

OuuR anu Ola Slaln-A ~ q
man the Cause of the BuJchery.
NEW YORK, July 19.-The Japan
Mail. received per latest mail, gives the
following account OF a terrible tragedy
in the Mikado's kingdom: One of the
most shocking stories we have had to
report in some years is now forming the
basis OF excitement in numberleSs vii
lagos and hamleJs throughout the
length and breadth of this country.
Shortly before midnight on the 18th of
May, the peace of village some twenty
or twenty-five miles to the southeast of
Osaka was rudeIy disturbed by the re-
port OF gunshot. Awakened by the
report Matsunaga Denjiro. a man fifty
years of aye, went outside. There
he saw two or three men with
drawn swords In their hands, who at
once attacked him. Denjiro escaped to
a neighbor, VINO, upon hearing what
had happened, summoned assistance
and ran up to Denjiro's house. ArriY-
ing there he found the house on fire
and two or three men with drawn
swords and small fire arms ready to kill
anybody who might attempt to inter
fere with them. None dared move.
An hour or two later a number sum-
moned enough to go to the place in
body, and there they found the wife of
DenjirO. tltty-five years old, slashed and
emf thp hanly anA aI, hic
SagorO, twenty years old,
ShOckfngIy IIutIIated,
with the Viscera protruding from cash
in the abdomen: ana daughter, SuYe.
thirteen years old, with gaping wounds
in the thigh and side, ana with her left
hand fingers cut off. All were quite
dead. Elsewhere, few hundred
yards off, the body of a woman
named MoIimoto fora was found in
front of her own house with a wound on
the chest from a musket ball. Other
wounds were found on other parts of
her body, and at the house of Mat
sunaga KumajirO, son OF DeniIro,
woman named Rice (twenty-siX), daugh-
ter Of one Akasaka UnO, and Denjiro'S
tive-year-old grandson, Kyutaro, were
found seriously wounded in the back and
abdomen; and 4 grandson of Askaka
Uno, who was born last year, and
Rlce's ilegitimate child. only forty
days old. were both found with their
heads cut off and bearing the
marks of other wounds. In
field near by Kuma Jiro's
corpse was cut and hacked into pieces.
The eldest daughter of Morimoto fora.
named Nui, eighteen years of age. was
found dead in barn with her head and
legs cut off. Not one of the ten victims
ever spoke from the time they were dis
covered.
For time, as readily he imagined,
CONSERVATION and terror reigned SUI
preme, and some hours elapsed before
the news of the terrible affair was CON-
municated to the nearest police station.
Immediately the advice was received. a
stream of officials, public procurators,
medical men, police inspectors set in
the direction of
The RlOOd-Stafned Village.
but the utmost inquiries and examina-
tionS failed to discover evidence of the
murderer or murderers, other than de-
ducible from the tact two OF the well
known men of the village, KIDD
Umataro and TaniYagoro, were no.
where to be found. 1t is these
men, with one other already
arrested, who are believed to be the
murdeFerS. The latest news to hand is
that force Of armed villagers is still
Out in quest of the murderers, who are
supposed TO hay 2 sought refuge in
KOngOsan, mountain situated between
Kawachi and Yamato provinces. Trace
has been discovered of the men.
The cause of the crime is woman
The chief murderer is now believed to
be the man KIDD Kumataro. The man
formed an attachment for Nui and took
her into his house after diVorcing his
actual wife on the plea of an incur
able mental arrangement. Nui. prior
to entering kumataro'S house. formed
laiSon with young man named
Torakichl, brother of the Kumakiro
whose mangled remains were found In
the field, and this, and a combination of
clrcumst ace stiilg umravel-
ment. appears to have led the man to
resolve upon committing the atrocious
crimes reported. Torakichi, who was
intended to serve victim, was away in
Vii tea-gathering, and to this, doubt
less, he owes his life.