Pseudo-Religious Sect Charged with Murder Seoul, Apr. 13.
With the announcement of the sulide of Zen 'Toren, alias Kin Ryukal, founder of the Hakubakukyo pseudo: religious sect, the police to-day raised 2 rigid press ban on one of the most extensive heresy hunts in the history' of Korea.
special communique, the police charged the founders of the queer' sect and their associates with kidnap. ping and murdering "more than 100" Young gltls.
Uneflicial estimates, - however, placed the number of" killed gis, whose bodies have been found, a 140, trid the total. of missing men and women at about $09.
The erimee were laid by the police at the doors of the lalo Kin Ryukal, 4, and his two brothers Kin Ryushy, 48, and Kin Han-ryn, 35.
rhe. bunt. for Kin Ryukal was started on February 12, when the Suthorities received the' frst inkling] of his connection with the epidemic! of musclers and disappearances of young girls.
'With the police net closing erouna him, the man committed suicide late last' month, after murdering his latest mistress, Baku Shukuko, 19, The father of the three men, Kin Tel-un, who founded another pscudo-Teligious sect, the Hakudo K3o, was executed about eighteen years ago on charges of having buried alive. four his mistresses who have lost his favour.
The technique of the three brothers and their associates was described by the, police. as. fellows:
"Young and ambitious farmers were informed that "societies headed by the three brothers could obtain for them high government posts for a certain amount of money.
When this money was brought to criminal band by the gullible farm~ gra, the larier' were" killed. 'The families of the "killed men' were then. informed that the latter" were Sppointed to high offices in other The next step, according to the police, was 10 select the. best-look-Ing gitts from these families and to them mistresses of the three: brothers and their associates.
"As goon a8 the girls lost their at—tractiveness, became" pregnant, were suspected of trying to. com-Imunleate with the suthoriies, they were buried alive or dispensed wit by, other means, "ame police suid that at least 62 iris violated by Kin Ryukal are ow enjoying the protection of the Daimon Police Station here, Most of the victims were peasant girls from the Heian Nan, Heian Fioku, Koken, Kohat and Keikl dis-{fieis in Central Kerea—Domel.
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