Chapter 30 Prosecutor's "Freedom Evidence"

Masaichi Okano's above-mentioned reasons are violations of the Constitution and incorrect facts. Defender's Statement of Reasons to present evidentiary capacity is invalid. The evidentiary capacity of the trial mainly focused on two points, one of which was the arbitrariness of self-confession. The Constitution (Article 38) stipulates that non-arbitrary self-confessions under coercion, torture, or coercion, long-term illegal detention, or self-confessions after detention cannot be used as evidence. (Paragraph 2 of the article) Self-confessions that are not suspected of being arbitrary cannot be used as evidence.When the self-confession can be used as evidence to determine the facts of the crime, the self-confession cannot be used as deduction evidence, and other supplementary evidence must be provided.

Supplementary evidence includes physical evidence and witnesses.Physical evidence is material sufficient to prove that someone has committed a crime, such as murder weapons, fingerprints, and footprints.clothes etc.Witness testimony refers to the testimony of witnesses in court, among which, under strict restrictions, the testimony of hearing people's rumors can also be used as evidence. In addition to direct evidence, there is indirect evidence.Circumstantial evidence proves the facts of the crime by proving other facts. Whether the evidence can prove the facts of the crime, that is, whether the evidence has probative capacity, is determined by the judge.Judgment should be left to the judge's free mood, which is called "free evidence doctrine".For this reason, the evidence used as the judge's judgment material must be authentic and credible.Therefore, only the evidence after a legal investigation in court can be used as the material for determining the facts.

—The above briefly described the trial process of proving a crime, and now we will talk about Okano from the latter.At the time of committing the crime, the cuffs of the sweatshirt he was wearing had the nosebleeds and vomit from the victim Sachiko Edamura attached to the cuffs. In addition, new fingerprints of Okano were collected from the room where the victim's body was located.These are physical evidence. Okano didn't deny that either.But he claimed that when he found the body and picked up the victim's upper body, the shirt cuffs were stained with blood and dirt. Witnesses include Okano's wife Kazuko, his apartment manager, Michio Sayama, Fujiko Fukuji, residents of the victim's apartment, and the housewife of a cigarette shop.

However, none of their testimonies witnessed Okano's crime, or directly proved that he committed it.Okano's wife Kazuko confessed that her husband left the apartment at 7:35 p.m. on May 4th and returned at 9:00 p.m., and her husband's usual personality and living conditions. This is indirect evidence; Perjury cannot be prosecuted (the testimony can be overruled), so it has no evidential capacity and can only be used as a reference to a certain extent. Michio Sayama's testimony was about his relationship with Okano, his relationship with Sachiko, and Okano's relationship with Sachiko, as well as a phone call to his room at 8:25 p.m. on the 29th.From the former material, it can be inferred that Okano committed a crime because of jealousy, which reveals Okano's motive for killing Sachiko, but does not prove the crime, so it is not direct evidence and can only be used as material to understand Okano's character.

Fukuji Fujiko's testimony was received from the above-mentioned phone call, which is roughly the same as Okano's statement, with only minor differences. The testimonies of the apartment manager, the housewife of the cigarette shop, etc. are also circumstantial evidence; and since Okano does not deny acts that are not directly related to the crime, there is no problem. What is left is Okano's self-confession after confessing at the police station, and the ability of this evidence depends on the arbitrariness of the self-confession. The judicial police (criminal police) who interrogated Okano had testified in the first trial.The police testified that there was no interrogation of the kind that Okano stated in court.

Okano confessed in court: "The police told me that if you want to go home and paint as soon as possible, you should surrender yourself now, which will give the prosecutor good evidence. We also filed a petition for a reprieve; and, if you I really did not commit a crime, and the judge will find out after investigation. The police reprimanded me and said that if I want to go home to work as soon as possible, I should stamp the surrender form! At that time, I was thinking about work, and I thought it would be clear in court without the facts. I surrendered myself according to what the police said. Regarding the unclear parts of the crime, I followed what the police taught me.”

In this regard, the relevant police officer categorically denied it, and testified that he had told the suspect that he could not say anything against him before he surrendered; moreover, he had never been interrogated by coercion, inducement, or temptation with benefits, so , surrendered entirely out of the suspect's arbitrariness. The police also said in court that after the suspect was transferred to the prosecutor’s office, he regretted the confession made at the police station to the prosecutor, which was the defendant’s desire to avoid punishment (this precedent is not surprising), and the defendant’s self-confession at the police station was true. sex.

Defendant Okano's defender defended that: the defendant's confession was made under the coercion of the police, and the police inferred that the blood and dirt that Okano accidentally stained when he discovered the victim's body was connected with his communication with Sachiko. And the inference was imposed on Okano as self-contribution.Therefore, the self-confession made at the police station and the physical evidence constituted by the self-confession are all unrealistic castles in the sky. The defender said in the grounds for appeal: "During the trial, if it was promised that if you surrendered, you would be forgiven and given a lighter sentence, then the person under trial would think that if you surrendered, you would be free immediately or be treated leniently in the future. Guarantee, so as to generate the hope of escaping from the pain of reality. In this way, there is a danger of false confession. In this case, the defendant has long had a strong desire to go home and resume work. Inducing the defendant to confess. According to the current situation of the police with serious bad habits, this kind of thing is very possible. Therefore, the self-confession made in the police station in this case lacks arbitrariness. "Article 38, paragraphs 1, 2, and 3, other physical evidence and indirect evidence triggered by this lack of arbitrary self-confession are all fictitious."

The defender has always insisted that Okano's confession is invalid.In addition, the unnaturalness of Okano's words and deeds at the time of the case was attributed to "the work of Airline A, which was acquired by Michio Sayama at that time, could not be completed satisfactorily, and he was restless and in a state of insanity; disorder." After reading the copy of the first-instance transcript, Kuangshan Xiner thought, now, the defender only makes such a defense, but does not pursue Michio Sayama's testimony at all. Okano found the body of Sachiko Edamura and hung up Michio Sayama at around 8:25. Was Sayama still in the house?Proof of this was the testimony of Fujiko Fukuji, who said she had been with him since around 6:30.

According to a private investigation by Sakurada Affairs Officer, although Sayama and Fukuchi do not live in the same room recently, they have a concubine relationship.They did not have this relationship about a year before the incident, which seemed symptomatic.It can be speculated that Sayama seduced Fukuji Fujiko in order to prove his alibi, and that relationship gradually deepened, and even developed into the current concubine relationship. Therefore, Fukuji Fujiko's so-called testimony of "being with him in Sayama's house from 6:30 to 9:00" is suspected of perjury.However, Sayama was not a suspect in the trial, so the defender could not criticize him.The only one who has doubts about Sayama is the prosecutor Kuwayama who is not in charge of the case.

According to Sakurada's investigation, Sayama's whereabouts on the night of May 4 were suspicious.Sayama Tofuku called a taxi from nearby to go to Hotel A at 9 o'clock. The driver said that although the two of them didn't seem particularly close, it seemed that they were deliberately pretentious and wanted to give people that impression. The poet who drove the elevator in Hotel A and the restaurant waiter clearly remembered Sayama's kindness.That's because he deliberately took some actions to give people the impression that Sayama had been to the hotel.For example, in the restaurant, he imitated Risha and asked the waiter about the dishes on the menu; deliberately walked to the seat of a TV actor who was coming to the restaurant at that time, and said something meaningless to her; often asked the waiter the time ,etc. Okano found Sachiko Edamura's body around 8:00 p.m., which may have just died, so Sayama's going out after 9:00 p.m. is not a problem.Sayama's stubbornness to impress the waiter of Hotel A in terms of time is a manifestation of "criminal psychology". San noted the following part of Okano's appeal: "On June 10 of the year before last, a tiger made an appointment to go to Sachiko Edamura, but he didn't go. Entrusted by Muraki, I investigated Sayama's actions on that day. Then I learned that on the 11th, the tiger went to the place of freedom. I was refueling at the gas station in front of Qiu Station. At that time, the car was gone at the gas station, and the tires were covered with red soil and weeds. Xiang Shanjun told the gas station employees that yesterday (10th) he went to play on the bank of the Tama River. "I told Jicun about this, and she was very happy, and told me to follow her in the future, which meant that Xiangshan had an affair with a woman, and asked me to help her stop him." June 10 of the year before last was the day when Masako Hatano, who was later found to have committed suicide in the Ome Nishi Mitake forest, ran away from home.Sayama made an appointment to go to Sachiko Edamura but did not go; the family car he was driving consumed a lot of gasoline that day; the tires were stained with red soil and weeds, which made people speculate that Sayama and Masako Hatano drove to Mitake together on the 10th went. Yuki Tsukimura may have also drawn the same speculation from Okano's report.She's a smart woman, and has a good sense of tracking.If that is the case, it is very likely that after hearing Okano's report, Sachiko went to the officer's scene to conduct an "investigation", because she may also think that Masako Hatano's death by hanging was not a suicide, but Michio Sayama's disguise kill. Judging from the red soil and weeds attached to the tires, it seems that I did not go to the bank of the Tama River to play, but to Mitake. —On this point, Kuangshan and Loutian agree. Officer Sakurada conducted an investigation from Mitake to Ome. According to the investigation report, one day, a taxi in front of Ome Station took a female passenger of about 30 years old, who seemed to be from Tokyo, to the west side of Mitake.The female passenger climbed into the forest with the driver.That's where Hatano Masako's body was found before. Later, the woman took a taxi back to Ome Station, entered the "He Lai Xuan" Chinese restaurant, and asked the proprietress a lot about the situation of a man and a woman who had been here before. Sakurada interviewed the proprietress of "Helaixuan".The proprietress still remembered the woman and the content of the conversation. On the evening of June 10, two customers, a man and a woman, ate Chinese fried noodles in the store. The woman claimed that the couple were her friends and asked a lot about them.At that time, when the couple's car came to the store on the 10th, it had a dispute with a truck of "Ome Forestry Company", and she was told about it.The woman was interested to hear about it.The taxi driver also testified.It turned out that after the woman left "Helaixuan", she went to the office of "Ome Forestry Company" behind the station and interviewed the truck driver Hei Yuan who had quarreled with the family car. So Sakurada went to Ome Forestry Company again and directly interviewed the driver Saburo Kurohara.Hei Yuan still remembered it clearly. "On the evening of the 10th, at the gate of Helaixuan, a car on the downlink was about to turn right and was blocked in front. I couldn't help getting angry and gave a few words to the man with the woman. At that time, Helai Xuan's proprietress came out to persuade him." When asked about the characteristics of the family car, it was the same as Michio Sayama's car, but I didn't see the car number. However, when the body of Masako Hatano was dissected, the digestive products of Chinese fried noodles were left in the stomach and intestines, which is evidence of iron.The characteristics of the couple described by the proprietress Helaixuan are exactly the same as Michio Sayama and Masako Hatano. From this, two facts can be deduced. One is that Masako Hatano was driven by Sayama to Miyake, strangled and pretended to be hanged to death.The so-called police department determined that Masako Hatano committed suicide because the body was severely decomposed and the cord groove on the neck was unclear. Masako's husband insisted on telling the police that his wife was "killed". Especially the latter, the husband had a mistress and hoped that his wife would die Therefore, he claimed that Masako had a suicide note. The husband hoped that his wife’s sudden death would not cause a big commotion, because he planned to marry his sympathizer soon, and the wedding was actually held within half a year. Sangshan once met their wedding banquet in a hotel by chance . The other is that, based on the above investigation, Sachiko Edamura mastered Michio Sayama's crimes, and used this as a weapon to threaten Sayama into marriage.It can be said that Sayama's motive for killing Sachiko is here. After reading Sakurada's report, Kuangshan became more suspicious of Sayama.However, in the murder case of Jicun Xingyu, Okano was judged to be the murderer in the first trial, and the second trial must also argue around the defendant Okano.The defender only defended on the basis that the defendant Okano's confession was not arbitrary.The confession was certainly not arbitrary, but the defender did not try to find the murderer in someone else. As he is not in charge of the trial of this case, Sangshan is inconvenient to intervene.Colleague Maruoka, who was in charge of the case, inherited the argument of the first-instance prosecutor.This was not out of the personal considerations of Prosecutor Maruoka, but was decided according to Shangfeng's will-order from the first trial stage.Judges have their own "freedom of evidence", but prosecutors do not.Even if the first-instance prosecutor's argument does not correspond to factual aspects, the previous first-instance prosecutor inherits his argument.The so-called "principle of procuratorial integration" is too rigid, and sometimes it violates the interests of the defendant, and it has to adopt an unreasonable tendency to support this system. Sangshan confirmed that Okano was not the murderer, but Michio Sayama was the real murderer.If he was the second-instance prosecutor who tried this case, he would be able to make it clear that Okano's self-confession was not credible, and expose Michio Sayama's deceitful alibi testimonial.That is to say, the contradictions in Oyama's own testimony can be grasped, and the crime of killing Masako Hatano can be prosecuted. Of course, there are great difficulties in doing so.First of all, Masayoshi Okano did not have the slightest doubt about Sayama, and he did not find out that he had fallen into his trap; moreover, since no third person suspected that Sayama committed the crime, he did not raise such a question.The suspects are only Kuangshan and Sakurada inside the prosecutor's office, so the way to ask questions is really a headache. Since the second instance does not repeat the same examination in the same instance, but in principle reviews the judgment of the first instance after the fact, so it is an important condition to present new evidence after the judgment of the first instance.To revoke the original judgment or dismiss the retrial, serious "errors in the original judgment" must be discovered. However, knowing that the real criminal is not the defendant but someone else, just because the "principle of integration of the prosecution" cannot be violated, and just because he is not in charge of the case, he turns a blind eye to Masaichi Okano's second trial? Kuangshan Nobuji first informally told prosecutor Maruoka his opinion, and then spoke to the chief prosecutor, but all ended in failure. What else can I do? In some criminal cases, the perpetrator has not yet been arrested, and the image of a criminal is formed.This comes from the empiricism of investigators. When a particular suspect is discovered, it is an important question whether to associate his image with the circumstances of the crime.Even if there is a suspect, if it is very different from the content of the crime, it will feel disproportionate. In this case, the inference is not sure. The reason why Kuangshan thinks that Michio Sayama is highly suspected of killing Sachiko Edamura is because judging from the circumstances before and after, he was also responsible for the Musashi Onsen murder case in Fukuoka Prefecture's Erkaichi City.The young girl who was murdered was related to Sayama, and in killing her Sayama took advantage of a madman who happened to escape from a mental hospital. The method of killing Masako Hatano was exactly the same as that case.In the case of Musashi Onsen, he committed the crime in the forest of Tianbaishan Temple; when he killed Masako Hatano, he chose the forest of Miyake.Both of them were related to him, and after becoming obstacles, they were removed by him.The former is because it has become a burden to his future; the latter is because it has become a stumbling block to him after losing its use value. The last Sachiko Edamura is slightly different from the first two.She deduced the truth about Hatano Masako's suicide and controlled Doufu psychologically.He was forced to marry her.It is not difficult for Muyama, who has ambitions for the future, to imagine that Sachiko's existence binds him.That is to say, Sachiko Edamura has also become a stumbling block for Sayama, and Sachiko is a more difficult thing than the first two. It is believed that Michio Sayama was the murderer of Sachiko Edamura because his character image is very closely related to the content of the case. However, in the case of Sachiko Edamura, the charge fell on someone else, and Michio Sayama stood in the "witness" seat throughout the first trial.To change this point, it is not easy to let the "witness" stand on the "defendant" seat.There is no direct evidence, and all the direct evidence found by the court proves that Masaichi Okano is a criminal. In terms of indirect evidence, Michiyo Sayama is at a disadvantage, which is hidden behind the defendant Okano.Okano's self-confession at the police station is of course false, but just as criminologists say, if the suspect turns himself in once, other witnesses will give "testimonies" that are psychologically affected by the surrender, and these testimonies will become Circumstantial evidence tightly binds the suspect or defendant. Sangshan expressed his opinion to the Deputy Prosecutor General, involving Michio Sayama.However, the Deputy Attorney-General dismissed his opinion solemnly and coldly.The deputy chief prosecutor didn't say anything, but he wanted to maintain the principle of procuratorial integration in his heart, not to blame prosecutor Sang Shan for making such opinions as meddling. Sangshan wanted to re-investigate the death of Masako Hatano from the hands of the hanged death case, arrest Sayama Michio as a murderer, and use this as a breakthrough day to rescue the defendant Okano from the case of Sachiko Edamura.The upper echelon can't make sense, but this is the only way. However, this also has great difficulties.Sufficient convincing is needed for a suicide to be reopened as a homicide, and it is lacking. The first difficulty is that Masako Hatano's autopsy report stated that she was not strangled, but hanged.This is the key to hindering re-investigation. It is impossible to deny that identification or make another identification, and the key corpses have been incinerated into ashes.It is not impossible to make an appraisal of the appraisal, that is, the appraisal of the appraisal, but as long as there is no other strong direct evidence, it will be difficult to do. In addition, Masako Hatano's husband not only had no doubts about his wife's death by hanging, but even rejoiced in her suicide, and even threatened that his wife had a suicide note, but no one actually saw it. Regarding the fact that Michio Sayama had a physical relationship with Masako Hatano long ago, as long as Sayama is investigated and the people in his shop can be found out; these alone are not enough to constitute a criminal suspect.On the morning of June 11 the year before last, Xiangshan went to the gas station to refuel. Regarding the red soil and weeds on the car, he said that he went to Tama River yesterday to play.Actually no, he went to the forest of Mitake.This point can be concluded from the words of the housewife of Ome Chinese Tea House.However, if Sayama denies that he "admitted the wrong person", there is nothing he can do about it.The housewife of the Chinese restaurant had never seen Kouyama and Hatano Masako in the past, so it may be countered that the first-time eyewitness testimony is of low accuracy.Moreover, even if he admitted these, they are only indirect evidence, as long as the housewife did not witness the murder scene, it cannot constitute direct evidence.The police department has already treated the corpse as a "suicide", let alone reverse the case. Based on these circumstantial evidence—especially the fact that the autopsy results did not match the inferences—Michio Sayama cannot be investigated as a suspect.If the investigation is carried out again and the results are not satisfactory, people will be accused of chasing rumors and human rights issues will arise.A difficult guy like Michio Sayama, based on this circumstantial evidence, he will not turn himself in. However, no matter what, we cannot let the real criminals go unpunished and let innocent people suffer innocent injustice.Kuangshan, who has been watching the Sandofu, has a very heavy heart. "Sandofu was in his room with Fukuji Fujiko from 6:30 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. on May 29. This is obviously a lie. Sayama must have been out in the middle, and her body was found in Okano to Sachiko's room at the time. Before 8 o'clock. It took about a minute for Sayama to kill Sachiko, so Sayama's departure time was around 7:30. It would be great if we could find the taxi driver Sayama was taking at that time, it seems hopeless." Sakurada said. "Almost hopeless." "Then we'll build a driver who drove him there." "Make a driver?" "Prosecutor, instead of bumping into walls like this, why don't we make a small plan." Officer Sakurada used to work in the Investigative Section 1 of the Metropolitan Police Department. As a criminal policeman, he has mastered a set of old-fashioned investigative techniques.Some veteran cops use deception in their investigations. Sangshan thinks it's dangerous to do so, but anyway, let's listen to Sakurada's plan first. "On June 10 of the previous year, in front of the gate of 'Helaixuan' in Ome City, Kurohara Saburo, a truck driver of 'Ome Forestry Company', had a quarrel with Sayama," said Sakurada. Sachiko Edamura of Yama's whereabouts. Fortunately, I also asked him to investigate! So, when I met Kurohara and asked about the quarrel with Xiangshan, he was very impressed." "You are talking about a family car driven by a person who looks like a mountain, turning right in front of a Chinese restaurant and blocking the path of the truck. The driver Kurohara was so angry that he quarreled with that person who looked like Sayama. The housewife of the Chinese restaurant came out to mediate , is this the thing/ "Yes, that car was driven by Sayama, and Masako Hatano was sitting in it. This is beyond doubt. I showed Kurohara the photo of Sayama in the magazine. He stared at it for a while and said that the photo was not very clear. His face is very dark, if he saw him in person, he might recognize him more accurately." "Let Kurohara meet Sayama?" "It's not enough to just let them meet, Kaoyama will pretend to be confused." At this point, Sakurada leaned forward, "Let Kurohara be the taxi driver, and take Sayama from Zhicun's apartment to the door of Aoyama's beauty salon. "But what if Sayama remembers what the taxi driver looks like?" "I don't think it's possible. We never pay attention to staring at the driver's face in a taxi, as long as there is no quarrel." The profession of a taxi driver is to serve in public places, just like a waiter in a restaurant.Like postmen, no one pays attention to their looks.Sangshan also understands this. "My idea is not to let Kurohara be the taxi driver for Sayama's outbound journey, but let him be the taxi driver for Sayama's return trip." Sakurada continued, "Because I think, when Sayama goes from Aoyama, the taxi driver does not know what to do. Where did I stop it; and when I come back, I may get on the car near the apartment and get off next to the beauty salon. As a criminal, after committing a crime, he always wants to leave the scene as soon as possible and run to his home. Although he was flustered when he went, But when I came back, I felt more uneasy and panicked.” "But, I don't know if Yishan will really let a taxi drive to the door of his store Q" "It's not the door, it's fine nearby. Anyway, as the driver, I have a deep impression on him, and I feel that the passenger behaved strangely. ... Let him be the driver when he came back, and there is another advantage. The proof that Xiangshan is not at the scene is Okano. He was in the house when the call was made. Therefore, from the testimony of the driver, it can be known that Sayama just returned to the house before Okano called at 8 o'clock. In this way, the alibi he prepared was completely destroyed. gone." After hearing Sakurada's words, Sangshan was also moved. "But, Hei Yuan has been working in Ome Forestry Company since the year before last, right?" "It's a trick too. Think of him as a taxi driver who was transferred to Tokyo around August last year. Anyway, he didn't drive to the mountains before. It's almost the same as a lie." "How can Kurohara meet with Zhushan?" "If it's just a general meeting, as you said, the other party is Sayama, and he will pretend not to know him. For this reason, I want Kurohara to write a letter to Sayama. The content of the letter is... last May At around 8:00 on the evening of the 29th, I drove a passenger from near the Shinano Ding apartment to near the Aoyama beauty salon. I seem to have seen that customer before. I thought about it for a long time. Recently, I saw a photo in a women’s clothing magazine and finally thought about it. Get up. On the evening of June 10 the year before last, I quarreled with you about the car in Ome. Because of that dispute, I was deeply impressed. I didn’t expect that you were the one who took the car that day. I miss you so much...that’s all I write. Well, after sending that letter, I asked Kurohara to move to Tokyo to rent a house for a week in order to wait for Sayama’s reply. I will pay for the expenses and give him a commission. I will go to Ome again and persuade him to do this thing." "What kind of letter will Sayama reply?" Sangshan himself didn't know. One morning, Michio Sayama received a letter signed by "Saburo Kurohara" in the mail. Astoria has a lot of mail. In addition to magazines, newspapers of the same trade, and department store promotional materials, there are also many letters from strangers, and there are also letters of admiration.There are quite a few people who are working in beauty salons all over the world and want to learn from a teacher. They wrote in childish handwriting, I want to be a first-class beautician.There are at least two or three letters a day.There are more men than women, a modern tendency, and people think beauticians can make money. Dofu thought that "Saburo Kurohara" might be in that category, so he casually opened the letter. "The autumn is crisp and the weather is pleasant. Please forgive me for writing to you rashly. "I want to tell you that it's been a long time. But I think you may not recognize me, but I still remember you very well. I am now working as a driver for a taxi company in Tokyo, and I used to work for the Ome Forestry Company in Ome City , driving a delivery truck. The early summer of the year before last——I have a diary, read the diary, it was around 6:30 p.m. Car, when I got angry, I got out of the car and blamed you. I have been driving a truck for a long time, and my temper has always been irritable, and finally that happened, I am really sorry. I remember that the proprietress of 'He Lai Xuan' came out to persuade you, and the woman sitting in your car The fat lady seemed to be in a panic. I'm really sorry, and I sincerely apologize." Seeing this, Dove's heart was churning. —That’s right, not bad at all. On the way to drive Masako Hatano to Mitake, Masako said she was hungry and wanted to enter a Chinese teahouse by the side of the road. The person who told this fact to himself was the second person, and that one was Sachiko Edamura. (The truck driver, I asked him in detail. I have the evidence that you killed Masako. The driver said that he is willing to testify in court at any time. There is a fat middle-aged woman in your car; Masako, who was hanged by Mitake, was in your car and said that you were playing alone on the bank of the Tama River, but on the way to Mitake, Ome ate Chinese fried noodles with Masako; after dissecting Masako, it was found that there were Chinese fried noodles and fried noodles in her stomach. Cherry pits on the ice cream sold at that restaurant.) Sachiko Edaki said happily and smiled smugly.In order to free herself from her arrogant bondage, she decides to put Sachiko to death as well. —— There is still a long paragraph after Kurohara Saburo's letter. What exactly is he going to say?Dolph looked down again, anxiously, as if struggling in a terrible wave. "...I have wanted to apologize to you for a long time, but I have never known your surname or name, and I do not know where your residence is, but by chance in May of last year—checking the diary, it was around 8 o'clock in the evening on May 29th , I saw you again. What a coincidence, you took the taxi I drove from Shinano, yes, there is a high-end apartment in that area, just near the apartment. However, I didn't immediately think of you who got in the car It was the gentleman who quarreled with me at the door of “Helaixuan” in Qingmei a year ago. I think I’ve seen it somewhere before. I looked back in the rearview mirror several times, and finally remembered that it was you. At that time, I wanted to apologize to you , because I’m sorry, I didn’t say anything, and I wanted to mention it to you when I wanted to drive for a while, but you got off the car when you arrived at Qingshan, so I lost the opportunity to talk to you, and I feel very sorry. I saw it in a magazine recently. Your photo, I didn’t expect you to be so famous, I was very surprised. I think I have to apologize to you, and I want to visit you, so I wrote this letter.” After reading Saburo Kurohara's letter, Dofu held the seven or eight pages of letter paper in his hand, staring at the distance for a long time.Two different scenes appeared in his vision, he saw a person flickering back and forth, and it was just a figure flickering behind the opaque glass. I still have some vague memories of the truck driver I met in Ome; but I have no memory of the taxi driver from Shinano to Aoyama.Not only do they have no memory, they have actually never seen his face.No one who takes a taxi will look at the driver's face one by one, and remember him in the future. From 6:30 p.m. on June 10 of the previous year to 8 p.m. on May 4 last year, Ome and Shinano Ding—I didn’t expect anyone to be able to connect these two times and places, even if it was a coincidence, it was too coincidental. Like fate.Will there be such a coincidence? Dolph felt suspiciously at first that there might be a trick in it.If it is famous, it is a man-made trick. If it is artificial, there must be a reason, and if it is a trick, there will be a reason. Dolph thought that Saburo Kurohara might be a spy from the police station, or maybe the police wanted to use the driver for a conspiracy. ——However, this kind of speculation cannot be established, because the police station has dealt with Hatano Masako as a "suicide"; in the case of Sachiko Edamura, the "criminal" has been charged and is currently on trial. The first instance has been convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment.The defendant is appealing, but the police department is confident.From this point of view, Kurohara Saburo's actions did not come from the line of the police station.Dove believes that the driver's approach was due to personal reasons not related to the authority. It may also be that, as stated in the letter, Kurohara apologized after recalling his rough behavior while driving a truck while driving a taxi a year later.If the other party is an ordinary person, it will be slow; when you know that he is a "celebrity", you will never forget it. This kind of mood may contain reverence for "celebrities", and you want to use this as an opportunity to get close to "celebrities". Dove also felt that this literal understanding might be too naive, but he couldn't think of any other "reasons".In fact, the profession of drivers can appear everywhere regardless of time and place, and their business is to contact all kinds of unspecified people all the time.It's just that I still think of a certain passenger from among the unspecific passengers. However, Doffer concluded that it would be inappropriate to indifferently refuse the driver's approach.If left unchecked, the driver may spread the word and spread it to friends and others, and if it is not done well, it may spread to the ears of the police, causing suspicion, and they may want to investigate.Besides, there are plenty of curious people in the world, and those people can meddle too.Another bad thing is that Sachiko Edamura came to him later. These considerations may be groundless worries, but if they are ignored, they will always be a heart disease. It is best to find out the truth as soon as possible, so that you can feel at ease.If it is indeed a hidden danger, it must be removed now.In short, the letter needs to be dealt with. Kurohara Saburo's letter confirmed the date of meeting at the Beauty Hall, and wrote that he would call him at around 5 pm that day to ask if he could meet.The so-called day is today, and the letter is a courier letter. At around 5 o'clock in the evening, Dove handed over the hairstyle of a politician's wife to his apprentice, and went back to his room to rest.Also don't want to use the store phone. At exactly 5 o'clock, the phone in the room rang. "I'm Kurohara." A young man said timidly, "...um, is that Mr. Sayama?" "Yes." Sayama replied coldly.He wanted to test the other party. "I sent you a letter, did you see it?" "I see." "Thank you. May I go now?" "It's the thing in the letter? Want to come and apologize to me?..." "Yes, but there is something else." "What's up?" "It's hard to talk on the phone. I want to see you. It's best not to have outsiders present." Dolph came to a sweet shop behind the Shinjuku department store. Saburo Kurohara asked that no one else be present, which caught Doffer's attention.It seems that he has bad intentions.Originally, there was no need to go to the pastry shop to meet him, and he could simply refuse; but after reading the letter, Dove thought that he had to agree to his request. When I entered the dim sum shop, the seats at the door were already full.This dim sum shop has a lower floor and a second floor above it.You have to go up the stairs on the second floor to get a clear view of the whole upstairs. Dao Furen stood at the door and glanced inside. He saw a man half up and half sitting on the railing on the second floor holding a magazine and waving it back and forth like a flag.The man was wearing a peak purple tie.This is Kurohara's mark, he told him on the phone. As Doffer went upstairs, he looked at the man shaking the magazine, feeling vaguely familiar.He was the guy who got off that truck on the road in Ome in the evening.The stairs were not high, and in a blink of an eye they came to the man. "It's Hei Yuan-kun?" He greeted first. "Ah, yes." The man was twenty-five or sixteen years old. He didn't have the long hair that covers the ears, which is popular recently. Instead, he had long hair in the front and short hair in the back. It was a variation of flat hair and artist hairstyles. The sunken eyes were round and big. Prominent cheekbones, a flat nose, a wide mouth, and of course dark skin.Yes, that's what it looks like. Dolph picked up from his vague memory the image of the man, who was wearing a dirty shirt. "Mr. Sayama, I wrote about that incident in the letter. I'm really sorry." Saburo Kurohara bowed deeply. "Ah, it's all in the past,...it's nothing." Dolph held out his hand.The opponent's hand was as hard as wood. The two sat opposite each other.Saburo Kurohara held the coffee and asked the waitress to bring a cup.After sitting down, he looked at the man in front of him again, and the memory of his face gradually recovered, and he finally decided that it was this guy. Looking around nonchalantly, there are couples of couples all around, unlike policemen in disguise sitting inside. "I'm really sorry. I often drive a truck, so I get irritable, and I lose my temper even when things are as big as sesame seeds." 黑原三郎使劲搔着变形平头。 “噢，就别提这事了。” “啊，谢谢！” “哦……你信上说，现在开出租汽车了？” 他先发制人地提出问题。 “哎” “哪个公司？” “江东区的八光出租汽车公司。” “噢，什么时候去的？” “前年8月。在青梅生活费倒是很便宜，但没什么刺激，不过开出租汽车也不是理想的生意，白天根本没法开。……对了，说起出租汽车，去年我经过信浓叮见过您哟，那儿有座高级公寓，就在那旁边。” “你信上也写过吧？” 道夫继续观察黑原的态度。 “是的，实际上我对那座公寓非常关心呢。” 道夫心中一惊。 “因为，那座公寓的四楼那阵子有个有趣的俱乐部，是个供男人玩乐的秘密场所，我们司机经常送客人到那儿去，把乘客送到那里，女人就给我们1000日元左右的小费。不瞒您说，您在那附近上车的时候，我还以为您是俱乐部的客人要回去呢，所以，我老是从后望镜里瞅您，于是马上回想起来，您就是在青梅的那个人……” “我不是从那座公寓里出来的。”道夫禁不住大声否认，“我是在那附近散步。” 他觉得光那样说明还不够，没充分考虑，便脱口说出了辩解似的后一句。 女侍将咖啡送到桌子上，问他要不要加牛奶。 “哦，您一个人在那儿散步？像您这样应该有个徒弟什么的跟着吧？” 黑原三郎睁大凹下去的眼睛。 “想散散心的时候就一个人。”道夫吸着咖啡说道。 “您的美容室不久的将来在日本美容界要变成头一号了吧，周刊杂志上是这样说的，我就是看到周刊杂志上的照片才知道您的。” 黑原的眼睛现出敬爱之情。 “周刊杂志的报道言过其实了，既是赞扬也是鞭策吧。不过也必须当心，弄不好还会遭人诽谤。” “什么事都要操心呐。不过，服务的对象全是女的，这一点令人心情愉快，可以把漂亮的女人打扮得更漂亮。” “我们的生意是要使不漂亮的女人变得漂亮，所以，在赢得谢意之外，还能盈利。”道夫诙谐地说。 “这么说，在女性中很有人缘吧？” 黑原也咧开大嘴笑了起来。对道夫来说，这是个需要特别小心的问题。 “我们这是工作，顾客们也那样看待我们。” “有道理，不然就没办法应付了。”黑原点着头，忽然又抬起脸来，“我前年失礼的时候，哦，就是在青梅的马路上同您吵架的时候，当时您的车里坐着一位年长的妇人，她现在好吗？” 问题提到要害处，道夫心里暗暗盘算，自己不能乱了阵脚，接着若无其事地答道： “可能搬家了，最近没到店里来过。” “如果见到她，请代问好。当时她在那辆豪华车里看到我那副野蛮相，好像都吓得发抖了。实在对不起她呀。” “见到她一定转达。”语调坦然自若。 “还有……”司机难为情地直搔头，“还有一件事要向您道歉，……镇不好意思啊I” "What's up?" 他觉得不是好事。道夫鼓起勇气主动地问他。如果不让黑原说出来，不知他想“道歉”什么，心中不能踏实。 “哦，是这么回事。……同您发生冲突的半个月之后，一个在青梅站前待客的出租汽车司机带着一位30岁左右、身材高挑的漂亮女人来找我。不知为什么，那女人刨根问底地打听我同您吵架的事，尤其注意了解时间和同乘那辆车的女人。” 枝村幸子！道夫仿佛觉得胸中涌出一股黑水。幸子曾经把这件事告诉过自己，还得意地说，抓到杀死波多野雅子的证据了。她还说她解开了车轮胎上沾有红土和杂草的谜，让他看钻进裤折里草种，说那是铁的证据。她把那些“证据”捻成一条绳索，紧紧地套在自己的脖子上—— “那时候我还不认得您，所以，我回答了那个漂亮的知识女性提出的问题。我一到女人面前就挺不住。我还特意从事务所拿来那天的行车日记让她看。她是对您有好感，因为吃醋才调查您的行迹的吧？” “不，不会吧，我一点儿都不知道这回事。”声音不大爽快。 “是吗？我做了不该做的事，给您添麻烦了吧？”黑原担忧地问。 "No, no." 说是没有，可是把这事再告诉别人可就麻烦了，你就别再提了。——道夫想，怎样塔黑原的嘴呢？