No marked progress inthe investigation into. the murder of Mr. Kosaku Kayau in Chi Mel Road on uly 10 has een reported. The report published me Japan dally that five Chinese taxi dancers were detained at the Bureau of Public Safety In connec tion with the case, was denied by the Chinese Police. It was pointed out that several dancing partners were questioned at a Chinese police lation in the North Szechuen Road area in an entirely separate case, ey were not brought to the Bureau of Public Safety in Nenta 'The mystery of the missing car-bridge cate is still considered to be of vital importance to the investigation, "The S2-calibre bullet which killed Kayau, and which was 0x-tracted from' his brain during the autopsy, 1s a pistol bullet. If it had been fired from a pistol, however, the case would have been automatic cally elected and. probably would have been found near the scene of the murder. It ts considered possible that the missile was fired from a revolver, for some special reason, In which event the cartridge case would have remained in the chamber from which the bullet issued.
1 Incident Recalled this connection the other, stranger incident in the neighbourhood is recalled. Kayau was shot and killed on July 10 shortly after Spin, in Chi Mel Road a stone's throw" from Dixwell Road. Only four days previously, on July 6, at Nour, a mysterious attack on another Japanese the Intersection of Chi Mel Road and Dixwell Road. According to the report to the Police by the intended vielim. "Kintaro Kurimoto, a black-yawned Chinese vainly tried to fire 2 pistol or revolver at him as he was passing the Peace Apartments on the corner. The weapon clicked three limes as the trigger was being pulled, and the-e was no discharge. If the' same person was the assailant in both cases, this failure in the first event and his use of a pistol bullet ina revolver in the second (assuming that a revolver was used) might both be ascribed to a lack of Knowledge of firearms. On the other hand, the supposed use of pistol iamunition in a revolver might have been due to his inability to procure the proper cartridges. It is possible. in certain cases to fre a Pistol bullet from a revolver.
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