The Archive · 1930

Ghastly Discovery In. Tokyo

Bodies of Ten Infants Found

in Trunk Tokyo, May 31.

'A. gruesome sensation was caused the Shinjuku Station, in Tokyo, yesterday afternoon, when a trunk which had been entrusted to a Station porter by a mysterious woman in the morning was found to contain the dead bodies of seven babies.

Tt appears that the woman, taking two other babies, came to the at about 10 o'clock in the morning and asked a porter to take care of a box for a few hours, and then went away in a taxicab. Later, suspicions were aroused because the woman, who said she would be back soon, did not turn up.

The station authorities decided to open the box in the presence of the police and to their horror found the bodies of seven babies.

Immediately, the police started action and, later they were suevessfal in arresting the mysterious woman, after acting on the clues supplied by the porter and other JWhile the exact cause has nol, yet

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