As the investigation Into the murder of Kosaku Kayau, a salesman employed by the Mitsubishi Trading Company, continued on July 13 with renewed vigour, various witnesses were re-examined but apparently nothing of vital importance was revealed and the investigators were at a. loss to account for the crime, which was committed on the night of July 10, {ll-tighted Chi Mei Road' about 140 feet from Dixwell Road.
'A mass of theory has been proffered, only to confuse the case, and no Official explanation has so far been advanced. "Kayau, the victim, was shot from behind at a time and place which gave the murderer a good opportunity to escape—and she did escape. Apparently only one person, young Japanese woman, was close fo the scene at the time, but owing to the fact that she did not face it when the fatal shot was fired, she Japanese Consular Police on July 13.
Although no insistence was made fon the point, the theory which seemed the most plausible on July 13 was that which saw a relationship between: the murder and an attempted murderous attack on another Japanese in the very neighbourhood at the same time of the evening on July 6 last. A Japanese barber named Kurimoto reported that night that some-one tried to shoot him outside the Peace Apartments, a house occupied by Japanese near the corner of Dixwell and Chi Mel Roads, but missed fire. Reports. of this incident were made to both the Settlement Police at Dixwell Road Station and the Japanese Con-Jsular Police, but the alleged culprit was not found.
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