Tokyo, Nov. 15. A mass murder which has shocked Jepan has been perpetrated by a 22- year-old orphan who killed all the eight members of a family which had adopted him and then committed suicide by jumping in front of an electric train.
The murderer, who killed his victims with a hatchet, was Hideo Hosokawa, a worker in the Army arsenal at Osaka. His crime was discovered when the police went to his home to inform his foster parents of his death.
They found the house an *indescribable shambles," and discovered two letters in which Hosokawa disclosed that he had massacred the entire family and would commit suicide.
Hosokawa, investigations showed, had murdered the family and had taken his own life because his foster-mother had scolded him for not wishing to follow the profession of her husband,
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