ever spoke from the time they were discovered. For a while as can be readily imagined, consternation and terror reigned supreme, and some hours elapsed before news of the terrible affair was communicated to the nearest police station, Tnmediately the advice was received a stream of officials, public procurators, medical men, police inspectors, set in the direction of the blood-stained village, but the utmost enquiries and examination failed ty discover evidence of the murderer ur murderers, other than that deducible from the fact that two of the well-known men of the village—Kido Kumataro and Tani Yayoro—were nowhere to be found, Tt is these men with one other, Azuma Kichizo, already arrested, who are believed to be the murderers. "The latest news to hand is that a force of 147 men—96 policemen, LI officials, und some 40. villagers—all armed more or less, is still out in quest, of the murderers, who are supposed to have sought refuge in Kongosan, a mountain situated between Kawachi and Yamato Provinces. Trace has. been discovered of the men. One night (the 26th) they Kirmer to whom one of them is relat-presented themselves at the house of a
ed and demanded food of the wife, who suspecting something amiss declined until compelled to by threats. Further than this, reports are in of their having been at a wood-cutter's house near Kiri-yama village on the 29th ultimo. They Inay succeed in eluding the police a day or two more, but their capture is probably only a matter of time, although the country is said to be sparsely settled thereabouts. 'A blood-stained sandal was found on Sunday at a charcoal kiln on the mountain, The authorities of Osaka Fu, it is unnecessary to say, are determined to hunt the murderers down, There is reported to be intense excitement in the village—Akasaka village in Ishikawa county. Ak village consists, it may be well to mention, of several surah villages and hamlets grouped in one under the one name; and the population according to an old mumber of the Official Gazette is somewhat, over nineteen hundred.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.