All this time Sergeant-Major Mori, whose role in the mirder tragedy has been to pretend to cross-examine Ohsugi, witnessed the murder calmly.
Then came Mrs. Ohsugi's: turn. She was in another room seated facing the only door leading to the chamber. It was not possible for the murderer to attack her. from behind as he did in the ease of her husband, so he entered into a conversation," aided by the redoubtable Sergeant-Major Mori, with her first, all the time preparing to spring on her. A part of the conversation, as recorded in court, was:
"You will very probably write regarding the behavior of the Police and the troops once martial law is lifted?"
"IT have already received many offers from publishers to do so," she replied.
Captain Amakasu, in confessing his crimes, declared that ho then jumped on her, seized her by the throat, dragged her down to the floor and strangled her in a manner similar to the way her husband was killed. The death agony of Mrs. Ohsugi lasted more than ten minutes, and that she made 'a desperate struggle for. life seems clear from the fact that Captain Amakasu still boars on his wrists marks of the struggle.
Sergeant-Major Mori was again present throughout this second revolting murder, calmly watching proceedings as though the villain and the heroine of " movie film were rehearsing.
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