Chapter 25 first quarter

On the surface, the so-called "downhill incident" that occurred on July 5 (the day when the body was found was the 6th) has not been resolved.The Metropolitan Police Department has not made it clear whether Xiashan committed suicide or was murdered, so the investigation work has come to an end. From the "Summary Report on the Investigation of the Downhill Incident" published in "Wenyi Chunqiu" and "Reform" about half a year later (that is, the "White Paper on the "Downhill Incident""), we can infer the reasons for the Metropolitan Police Department's termination investigation work in this case.The report concluded that Nobuaki Shimoyama, the first president of the National Railway Company, "suicided himself."

In fact, this investigative report was not officially released by the Metropolitan Police Department itself, but as "exclusive information" collected through painstaking interviews by these two magazines;This "exclusive news" was originally sold to the two magazines by a reporter from a certain newspaper who pretended to have secretly obtained information from the Metropolitan Police Department.At that time, neither magazine knew that the other had received the same news, so they published it at the same time.Therefore, it is not a genuine "exclusive news".The Metropolitan Police Department's method of deliberately releasing this information has a delicate drama atmosphere.The hall does not officially "publish", but "announces" in this form.

Many articles have been written about the "downhill incident", so I will not elaborate on the details of the case here.However, in the process described in this article, it is still necessary to provide readers with some minimum data.Here I intend to explain the facts in the order of the "White Paper on the "Downhill Incident" mentioned above. It happened on July 5th in the twenty-fourth year of the Showa era.President Xiashan left Shangchishang's private residence at around 8:20 in the morning.He was in a car for his own use, and the driver's surname was Daxi.When the car came near Onarimon Gate, it went down the mountain and said, "I was going to Mr. Sato (referring to Eisaku Sato)'s house." The driver Onishi asked him, "Should we turn back?" He replied, "No, there is no need. The car drove towards the National Railway Headquarters, and when it came near the traffic control platform in front of Tokyo Station, it went down the mountain and told the driver Onishi, "I want to buy something, so let's drive to Mitsukoshi." At this time, down the mountain said to himself Said in a voice: "It's enough to go around at ten o'clock today."

When the car drove to the land bridge of the state-owned railway north of Tokyo Station, he said: The driver Onishi drove the car to the tramway in front of the white wooden house, saw that the white wooden house was still closed, and said, "It hasn't opened yet!" He answered "um".Driver Onishi drove the car around to the front of the Mitsukoshi Department Store. There was a sign on the front door saying "open at 9:30 am".Driver Onishi said: "Then let's drive back to the hall?" The president said as if he suddenly remembered something: "Go around to Kanda Station." Driver Onishi drove the car to the avenue west of Kanda Station as instructed and asked : "Get out of the car?" The president shook his head and said, "No."

Driver Daxi thought he was going back to the main hall, so he drove the car under the land bridge on the east side, preparing to turn back to the main hall.At this time, Xiashan suddenly ordered: "Turn to the right." Driver Daxi obeyed the order and turned the car to the right.Xiashan told him again: "Go to the Mitsukoshi head office." As soon as the car drove to the front of the state-owned railway company's main office, Xiashan said in an angry voice, "Hurry up." (Xiashan seemed to have something to do with others Appointment, I’m afraid it will be delayed.) The car turned full power, and when it came to the head office of Chiyoda Bank (today’s Mitsubishi Bank), it went down the hill and stopped the car as if suddenly remembering something, and hurried into the bank.After about twenty minutes, he came out and got into the car, saying, "Go to Mitsukoshi now, the time is probably right."

Driver Onishi drove the car to Mitsukoshi Department Store.At around 9:37 in the morning, I stopped at the south gate of the store, went down the hill and walked in. Driver Daxi parked the car in front of the door and waited for the president to come out;There is always a habit of keeping the car waiting for a long time when going down the mountain, so the driver Daxi didn't care and waited until five o'clock in the afternoon.At five o'clock, he heard the news of the president's disappearance from the news broadcast on the radio installed in the car, and went to call the police.

On the other hand, on the same day, the president had originally agreed to meet with senior officials of the U.S. General Headquarters at eleven o'clock in the morning. Therefore, the secretary was waiting for him at the back door of the state-owned railway company's office building before nine o'clock, but the president's car was never seen.At a quarter past nine, he called the president's private residence. His wife answered the phone and said, "I left home at the usual time when I went down the mountain." Between half past one and eleven o'clock, I didn't go down the mountain to these places.

At noon, the secretary called the former secretary of the president and found out the address of Nobuko Morita (the proprietress of Naritaya, the mistress of the president of Shimoyama) who Xiashan often visited in Xinchuan, and sent another driver to inquire, but the president had never been there. There. When it was almost two o'clock in the afternoon, Vice President Kagayama and Director Tiansaka went to the US General Command to make contact.After returning, since there was no news of going down the mountain, at 2:30 in the afternoon, they contacted Lieutenant Colonel Sagnon of the Civil Transportation Bureau.

Then they asked the radio to broadcast to find out the whereabouts of the president-this was not commissioned by the national railway company.The Onishi driver who was waiting in front of the Mitsukoshi head office heard the broadcast and came to contact the head office, only then did he know that President Shimoyama was missing.On this day, the directors of the various bureaus stayed in the main office until very late, waiting for all parties to come to contact them about the whereabouts of the president, but in the end there was no result. At dawn the next day (July 6th), the last train No. 2401M bound for Matsudo from Ueno Station left Kita-senju Station at 0:24, and had just passed under the land bridge of the Tobu Line. At the intersection point, the driver caught a glimpse of something red and fuzzy on the track about 20 meters ahead.He guessed it might be a body run over by a tram.At 00:26, he got off the tram at Ayase Station and reported to the deputy station master: "There is a body that seems to have been run over. Please investigate." The car drove away.

The station staff immediately came to the scene in light rain and found a man's body that had been crushed to pieces. They determined that the dead body had been run over by the 869th freight car (with fifty empty cars hanging) that had passed by this tram.There were three people on the truck: driver Yamamoto Ken, assistant Ogiya Sadaichi, and flight attendant Yokota Kazuhiko, all of whom were employees of the Mito Locomotive Depot of the Tokyo Railway Bureau. This freight train departed from Tabata Station. Since the driver of the locomotive bound for the northeast was not familiar with the shunting route at Ueno Station, he had to be instructed by driver Yamamoto, so the driving time was delayed by eight minutes.The passing time from the scene was about 0:19:30 am on the 6th, and I just caught up with it when I drove to Jincho Station.

The words are divided into two ends.After receiving the notification from the last tram No. 2401M, the station staff of Ayase Station went to the scene with an oil lamp and found a strong corpse lying naked and prone on the track.It was around one o'clock in the morning.The other station staff at the station arrived at the scene at three o'clock in the morning. At that time, a policeman and the foreman of the Kita Senju Road Maintenance Division had already arrived.The policeman said: "President Xiashan's monthly pass fell on the ground," and took out the monthly pass holder from his pocket to show the station attendant.They searched the area again and found a body without a head, right arm and left leg.The watch is next to it.There is a large piece of meat a meter apart in front.It was raining just now, and it rained heavily before I knew it. Soon after the station staff returned, Saito, the station master of Ayase Station, set off to the scene, and it was already raining heavily.At about three o'clock in the morning, the station master who arrived at the scene lifted the corpse to have a look. Despite the heavy rain, the stone under the corpse was not wet at all, and there was no trace of blood; I came over and saw that the stone below was dry and whitish, and there was no blood. This was later called into question. Stationmaster Saito ordered the corpse to be removed.He thought: If the dead body is indeed President Xiashan himself, he should be wearing glasses.So, he led the police at the scene and the workers of the Kitasenju Road Maintenance Division to search for the glasses together.But never found it.He thought again that there might be other things left behind, so he dug into the trouser pocket of the deceased, found a wallet, and handed it over to the police for safekeeping along with the watch that fell on the ground.But the policeman carelessly wound the winding of the watch, and in so doing rendered it worthless as evidence. Before four o'clock in the morning, Ori, the head of the Passenger Unit at Ueno Station, who had been the secretary of the president Shimoyama, came and confirmed that the deceased was indeed the president himself. President Xiashan was wearing a gray checked suit with no vest inside and brown leather shoes on his feet.Every morning the president asks Nakamura, who lives in his house, to shine his shoes, and always puts ocher red shoe polish on them.Except at his own home, Xia Shan never asked a shoe shiner to shine his shoes in the title or anywhere else.His shirt is made of white cotton, and his tie was bought in England when he went to Europe on a business trip in Showa 11. The dark blue ground is inlaid with red and gold vertical lines, or a diagonal check pattern.On the feet are light brown linen socks.The glasses are made of beige celluloid. The right lens is hyperopic astigmatism (0.5-80 degrees), and the left lens is hyperopia (0.5-80 degrees). From 1:40 p.m. to 5:12 p.m. on the 6th, in the forensic anatomy room of the University of Tokyo, Dr. Kuwashima, together with Dr. Furuhata Tekki, dissected the president's body and made a preliminary identification: 1. The cause of death is unknown; it cannot be concluded that it was strangulation, poisoning, shooting, or bleeding caused by trauma. 2. It is not possible to determine how long he died, but it can generally be inferred that he died on the night of July 5th. Three, less bleeding. 4. No "physiological response" can be seen from the scratches on various parts of the corpse and the places where the head, body, hands and feet were crushed, so it can be concluded that they were crushed after death. On the other hand, as a result of the examination of the train that had run over the body, fragments of sweatshirts stained with pieces of meat and blood were found in the first open wagon and elsewhere.The president is wearing brown rubber-soled leather shoes.Found on the soles stained with plant pigment - chlorophyll. The place where the accident occurred was on the downlink track between Kita-senju Station and Ayase Station on the Joban Line between 938-942, Gotanano-cho, Adachi-ku. There are land bridges.

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