The detection of the crime with which Kotoka Denjito and twenty-five others are charged was due to information received by the Nagano police tothe and of May, 1910, that Miyashita Takichi bad manufactured and was in possession of some explosives. This man Takichi, was formerly employed in some iron works at Kamevaki, Chita district, in Aichi Prefectare; on June 10, 1909 he obtained an appointment in the Akeshina Saw Mill conducted by the Nagano Forestry Office located in Akeshina, Nake-Kawade-Mara, Higashi-Chikum: district, Nagano prefecture. Whi working in the mill be proclaimed to his fellow-workers his belief in anarchical commonism. Consequently the police officials in the district placed him under surveillance. Nevertheless he became more and more convinced of his principles and made end propagate communistic ideas, until the chief of the Matsumoto police made an attempt, in September of the same year, ith the aid of the offi of the Saw Mill, to bring the man to reason. Takichi then avowed that he would card the principles, However, in January, 1910, the chief of the Matsamore Police obtained information that not only bad the accused been in com-manication with the Anarchists in Tokio, but he also detected that the nccused had secretly manufactured several pieces of tin cans of small size daring October of the preceding yor. Aw a result of close inquiries the poli fonnd that the acc beens accused had been in ion with Niimura Who also espoused similar prineiples, since March, 1910, Suspicion was thus again aroused. On May 19 the police received information that Takichi bad daring October of the pre-coding year, been engaged in palvoris ing some red chemicals in the house of Nitta Toro, also a workman in the same mill, and also that he had, la April, 1910, got twenty-four small' tin jeans made igh the said Nitta. On the poli possession of some explosives. Acoordingly, the Mi Takicbi on May 25, 1910, by: virtue comes into force without establishing p, of Article 56 of the Law of Oriminal procedure and instituted a search of head or branch offices in Korea,
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