Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1893-07-14
SAVAGE BUTCaERY IN JAPAN.

1t All Came About Through Woman's
Double Love Afrair-The Lord high
Executioner Gould not Havo Dono q
BIoodier job.
NEW YORK, July 13.-The Japan
Mail, received per latest mail, gives the
following account OF terrible tragedy
In the Mikado's dominion:
One of the most shocking stories we
have had 10 report In some years Is now
forming the basis OF excitement In num-
berless villages aud hamlets throughout
the length and breadth Of, this country.
Shortly before midnight, on the 25th
of May, the peace OF q village some
twenty or twenty-five miles to the
southeast OF Osaka was rudely dis
turbed by the report OF gunshot.
Awakened by the report, Matsunaga
Denjiro, man so years OF age, went
outside. There he saw bwo or three men
with drawn swords In their hands, who
at once attacked him.
Denjiro escaped to neIghoor, who,
upon hearing what had happened, sum-
moned assistance and ran To Denjlro's
house.
Arriving there he found the house on
fire, and two or three men with drawn
swords and small firearms ready to Kill
anybody who might attempt TO inter
fere with them. None dared move.
An hour or two lateria number sum-
moned enough courage 70 go to the
place in a body, and there they found
the wife OF Denjiro (55 years old)
slashed and cut in the back aud abdo-
men; his son Sagoro go years old)
shockingiy mutilsted, with the viscera
protruding from cash In the abdomen;
and a daughter, Suye (l3 years old,
with gaping wounds in the thigh and
side and with her left hand fingers cut
of.
All were quite dead. Elsewhere. a
few hundred yards OF, the body Of
woman named Morlmoto Tora was
found in front Of her own house with a
wound In the chest from musket ball.
Other wounds were found on other
parts OF her body.
At the house OF one Matsunaga Kun
afro. a son of Denjiro, woman named
Rive. (26) daughter OF one Akasaka
Uno, and DeHjiros, fiye-year-eld grand
son, Kyutaro, were found seriously
wounded in the back and abdomen, aud
n grandson OF Aknsaka Uno, who was
born last year, and Riye's illegitimate
child, only forty days old, were both
found with their heads cut on, and
bearing the marks OF other wounds.
In a field near by Kums'iros' corpse
was cut and hacked into pieces. The
eldest daughter of Morimoto Tora, by
name Nui, IS years of age, was found
dead In barn With her head and legs
cut off.
Not one OF the ten victims spoke
| from the time he was discovered. For
a while, as can be readily imagined,
CONSERVATION and terror reigned SUI
preme, and some hours elapsed before
the news OF the terrible affair was com
municated to the nearest police statlon'
The cause OF the crime Is woman.
The chief murderer Is now believed 10
be KIDD Kumataoo. The man had
| formed an attachment to Nui. the poor
creature who was found With her head
battered ia aud legs cut of, and took
her into his house after divorcing DIS
actual wife on the plea OF an incuraole
mental arrangement.
Nui, prior TO entering kumataro's
house formed a liason with young
man named Torakischi, brother OF the
Kumejiro, whose mangled remains were
found in the field and this and comoi-
nation OF circumstances still awaiting
unrayelment. appear to have led the
man 10 resolve upon committing the
atrocious crimes reported. Torakiehi,
who was intended TO serve as victim
too. was away In Uji tea gathering, and
,o This doubtless he owes his life.