Landing Party Turn Out in Fighting Kit: Mystery Surroundings Clerk's Death 'A. young Japanese clerk was shot from behind and fatally wounded early on the night of July 10 by an Unknown assailant in Chapel, and, a5 fa result of the crime, the Japanese Naval Landing Party turned out in large numbers, in full campaign kit, ananner reminiscent of the early ays of the Nakayama case last November, The vielim, Kosaku Kayau, a 32- year-old employee of the Milsubishi Trading Company, was shot through the back of the head at 8.15 o'clock. in Asia Li, Chi Mel Road, just a few stops north of Dixwell Road, Ie was carrying @ tiny Japanese infant at the tUme of the attack, the child of 9 friend living In. the neighbourhood. Only' one bulller was fired, lodging in the left frontal lobe of the brain, and blood Issued from the wound so as 19 stain the baby's clothes, Two Witnesses The infant's brother, aged Ave, also was with Kayau at the tim may prove an" important wit ness of the attack, Neither child was injured. A Japanese Who was In the poorly lighted lane only a fow yards from the scene of the crime, saw the flash from the would-be murderer's gun, but she did Rot get @ good look at the assailant himself and was not even able to say whether more than one person artleipated in the attack, Settlement police from the Dixwell Road Station, close by, were the frst to be called {o the scene. A Chinese physlelan was summoned by a foreign Sergeant and he at once realized the seriousness of the wound. Kayou was conveyed in a rickshaw to Foo Ming Hospital and attended there by Japanese physicians and Dr, T. Int Burton. The taking of X-ray photographs showed that the bullet, probably of 88 calibre, had traversed the brain against the machine-gun carried on the framework. They were taken to the barracks of the Naval Landing Party in Kiangwan Road.
The forelger, who was not in-Jured, was questioned by police from Dixwell Road Station. "Ascording to the Japanese press, the driver was a Mr. Brooke, British, attached to the Chinese Customs.
Immediately after the accident, further Marines from the Landing Party Barracks were posted about the scene and the ground marked with chalk to indicate the paths of the we. vehicles." Challe "marks showing the path which Kayau took from Dixwell Road through Chi Mel Road to Asia. Li had been drawn at the scene of the attempted murder earlier in the evening.
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