Chapter 26 second quarter

At first, the Metropolitan Police Department suspected that the bodies that had been killed elsewhere were brought to the scene and the train was crushed on purpose, so they carefully investigated the routes leading to the vicinity of the scene, but there was no evidence. Spot such signs.There is a Ayase River nearby, so I went to investigate again to see if there was any sign of transporting by boat.According to the sluice administrator, no boats passed by that night. In order to catch eels, the vicinity of the sluice was forbidden to pass, and it was impossible to pass the boat.I also investigated three boat charter stations, but no boat was rented out that day.

Later, I imagined whether the corpse would be moved to the site from under the land bridge at the intersection of the Joban Line and the Tobu Line, so I simulated a 20-weight sandbag based on the human body and tested it along the possible roads. The result concluded that "it is possible, but extremely difficult". My inferences about the correctness of the "White Paper on the Downhill Incident" will naturally become clear in the next part of this article. The body of President Xiashan was roughly broken into five parts: head, body, right arm, left leg and right foot.The head was almost crushed, and only about a third of the brain remained.The ribs seemed crushed, nearly all broken, and the heart had squeezed through the ribs and was holed.There were more than 300 scars on various parts of the body, but there was no "physiological response" at the cut off place.There are no traces of narcotics and poisons used.It is assumed that when the train passed by, the descending person lay face down on the track, forming a right angle—the chin just rested on the track; therefore, the skull was crushed, and the epidermis of the face fell off as if peeled off. down.It was deduced that this was scraped by the locomotive's blocker.

After inspecting the clothes, the upper body of the gray woolen suit was not stained or broken at all.But the shirt was very dirty, especially the right shoulder was sticky and black, and the top of the sleeve was torn in a large piece.The black dirt is obviously oil.Shaking the shirt, garbage-like things rustled on the paper.There are also red, green, tea, white and other colors on the dust. Shirts, trousers, undershirts, underwear and shoes were also checked, and none appeared to be bloodstained.But except for the upper body of the suit and shoes, there were a lot of black oil stains.Especially the loincloths and socks that are worn next to the body are all sticky.

According to the results of painstaking laboratory tests on a very small amount of blood, it was found that President Shimoyama's blood was of AMQ type.There was very little blood, which also raised questions later. The investigative team originally thought that the oil was dripping from the locomotive, but later found out that the locomotive used mineral oil, but the underwear of President Xiashan was stained with vegetable oil.As a result of further investigation, it was clear that nine out of ten it was rice bran oil. There is also colored garbage, which has been tested and proved to be tar-based dyes, mainly bluish green, mixed with red, purple, tea, white and other colors.It was suspected that the dye had fallen from the wagon that had run over the corpse and got on the clothes, but after inspection, there was no such thing in the cargo of the train.It can be judged from this that the oil must have been stained elsewhere before going down the mountain and being rolled.The powder of the dye was stained on the upper body of the suit, trousers and shirts, and the shirt was also stained with dye on the inside.Linking this dipping method with the situation of dipping oil has attracted quite a lot of attention.It turned out that the oil did not come from the outside of the clothes, but from the inside.

Train No. 869 was supposed to depart from Tabata Station at 0:02 in the morning, but on the night of the 4th it departed at 00:10, that is to say, it was eight minutes late.After checking the reason, it was said that the handyman in the locomotive who was in charge of waking up Yamamoto driver forgot to call him. It was later found out that the handyman was so obsessed with another person that he forgot to wake up Yamamoto's driver and assistant Ogiya.Ogiya ran to locomotive No. D51651, only to see that the pressure of the steam had dropped.Looking at the meter, there are only six kilograms left; there must be more than ten kilograms of pressure to pull the truck.He hastened to light the boiler and let the steam rise, so he was eight minutes behind schedule—at ten minutes past midnight.This train had fifty freight cars, but because almost all of them were empty, it drove very fast. It was only about two minutes late when it passed the accident site of Gotanno, and it was overtime when it arrived at Kanamachi Station.Later, the police asked Yamamoto and Ogiya to report the situation. For some reason, the driver Yamamoto said to his assistant Ogiya: "It is best not to tell the police that the departure time from Tabata was late." Therefore Ogiya did not mention the departure. It's too late.Later, this incident aroused doubts. For a period of time, Yamamoto's driver was suspected, but after strict investigation, the suspicion disappeared.A whole year later, in May of the 25th year of the Showa era, Yamamoto died suddenly.

After the incident, strange things happened one after another at the Tabata Locomotive Depot.One of them is: In Ayase Station not far from the accident site, an analysis map of the Tabata Locomotive Depot was left beside the track.The tracks of the Tabata locomotive depot are intricate, and the switch lever and the switch handle seat are operated from a small signal building to make the whole locomotive depot run as an orderly mechanism, all of which are operated according to the analysis diagram. Who exactly lost this chart?Not all the staff in the locomotive depot had such a chart, so it was quickly found out that a young station attendant had lost it.He was closely interrogated, but he only replied, "I won't tell if I'm dead." When the young man resisted, the matter of the analysis chart was dropped.

The second incredible thing is that strange writing was found in the toilet of Nippori Station, the first station from Tabata to Ueno.In the center of the board where things are placed in the men's restroom, the words "5.19 Downhill Bucket" are written horizontally in chalk.The body that went down the mountain was just discovered in the early morning of the 6th. The six words "5.19 Xiashan barrel" can also be understood as a kind of code, indicating that Xiashan was put into the gasoline barrel at 19:00 (7:00 p.m.) on the 5th. There is one more strange thing.Between 7:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. on July 5th, the news of the disappearance of President Xiashan was spread through radio broadcasts and other means, but it was not known whether it was dead or alive.At this time, a certain Maeda from the Tokyo Railway Company's External Liaison Department told everyone in the room of the Tokyo Railway Company's trade union branch: "Just now a call came, saying that the president died in a car accident." Everyone shouted after hearing this.This call was made to the Tokyo branch, and it was a special railway line.So the question arose: Where did the call come from?Immediately after investigation, there was a newly installed telephone in the lounge of the locomotive depot at Tabata Station. The person in charge locked the room at 6 pm on the 5th. On the morning of the 6th, the lock was found to be broken. It seemed that someone had pried it open.The man used the phone he had just secured to inform the Tokyo branch of the National Railway Union that the president had died in a car accident.It was never possible to find out who did it.

there's one more thing.Two days before the disappearance of President Shimoyama, leaflets "Kill Shimoyama!" and "Call Shimoyama" were posted near Shinjuku Station.After the incident, the leaflets were torn up before the police could see them.The day before Xiashan disappeared, a young man from the Railway Hongji Society received a call announcing that Xiashan would be murdered. Another strange thing is that although the investigators of the Metropolitan Police Department had conducted an investigation on July 9th to the person on duty at night on the day (the 5th) when the incident occurred, they later wanted to re-interrogate, so they asked someone to report to him. I brought the duty book which recorded the details of the duty, and found that the part from July 1st to 5th had been torn out indiscriminately.Why only tear off five days?Because that includes the 4th and 5th of July when the incident took place.

One more odd thing: strange bloodstains were found at the scene of the accident. At the head of the rolling scene—that is, the direction of the train from Tianbata—spots of blood were found on the road about 200 meters away.His blood type is AMQ, which is the same as President Shimoyama's.Generally, only three and a half people among a hundred people have this blood type.If there were bloodstains left on the scene and along the direction of the train, it could be said that the blood dripped from the train, but in this case, the bloodstains were first found on the scene. The bloodstains were discovered on the basis of what the investigators had heard from the outside.Some people said that "three or four days after the incident, a jeep drove to the accident site, and the American military police used a knife to scrape off the blood-stained part of the sleeper", which was heard by investigators. "Asahi Shimbun" reporter Yada went to the scene to investigate in order to confirm the news, and found scratches on the crossties.He also found the same type of blood on other railway lines.Not only that, but the same type of AMQ blood was found on the door of the twine hut near the scene.There was no one in the cabin at the time.The blood on the door must have been wiped off by someone.It seemed that the man who smeared the blood was quite tall.The investigating authorities decided to ask the Forensic Science Laboratory of the University of Tokyo to conduct a precise test on the blood types of these bloodstains.

The above are some plots that are often mentioned in various articles about the "downhill incident" so far.Although I intend to keep the narrative as simple as possible, the plots still need to be repeated for the sake of inference. As pointed out earlier, the so-called "White Paper on the Downhill Incident" is not an official document issued by the Metropolitan Police Department.However, judging from the current situation, the Metropolitan Police Department has generally concluded with the statement of suicide written in this "White Paper".However, the "White Paper on the Downhill Incident" was written in accordance with the opinions of the First Investigation Section, and it did not adopt the opinions of the Second Investigation Section.As soon as the incident happened, the First Investigative Division claimed that the descent was a suicide, while the Second Investigative Division claimed that it was a murder. Their opinions have always been opposite.

On August 4th, the Metropolitan Police Department held a joint meeting of the investigative headquarters in the Office of the Minister of Criminal Affairs of the Department, at which it was determined that the case was a suicide.But this is an internal judgment made by the investigation headquarters, and it has not been officially announced. It is only an attitude of not determining whether the descent down the mountain is suicide or murder. The "White Paper" was concluded based on the opinions of the first department alone, and the second department didn't even know when such a document was compiled. Then why did Yike say that going down the mountain was a suicide?In a word, after the criminal policemen of Section 1 who adopted the "on-the-spot doctrine" went to the scene to investigate, they asserted that there was "no trace of murder" in this incident.Needless to say, the first department is mainly investigating murder cases. Based on their years of experience, they have a unique intuition about the crime scene, and the so-called "no trace of murder" is probably derived from this intuition. On the other hand, the Second Division, which specializes in dealing with intellectual criminals, determined: "The 'Downhill Incident' is an unprecedented murder case that used intelligence, and it is impossible to draw conclusions based on the general experience of the first division on murder cases." It is." At that time, Ji Wu, the head of the Second Division of the Second Division of Investigation, represented the opinions of the Second Division, who contributed the most to the investigation work.But later, for some unknown reason, Chief Yoshitake was transferred to the Ueno Police Station to investigate a certain case.It is said that because Chief Yoshitake was transferred out of the investigation circle, the investigation work of this case has lost its clues, and the prosecutors will take it as a pity.

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