Chapter 30 Section VI

Then why did Xiashan go to the bank to open a rental safe?What did he do?He drove around two department stores in a car, and ran to the secret vault he rented in the bank as if he suddenly remembered something on the way. It can only be assumed that he wanted to deposit or withdraw something. .Several stacks of hundred-yen bills were stamped with a bank's May 15 stamp, totaling thirty thousand yen.It is hard to imagine that on the morning of his descent from the mountain, he mistakenly took 30,000 yen bills out of his pocket and put them in the safe. It was probably because there were more than 30,000 yen in the safe drawer of the vault, and he was there to withdraw the money.That is to say, 30,000 yen is the money left after the withdrawal. I don't know how much the money was withdrawn. It is estimated that it may be about the same as the remaining amount.

So why go down the mountain to withdraw money?Suppose he withdraws 20,000 or 30,000 yen from the safe drawer of the bank's rental vault. Is it necessary for him to give this money to someone? To whom? First of all, it will make people think of women.But after the incident, the police investigated Morita Nobuko and confirmed that she had gone to Hiratsuka and was not at home.Although Morita Nobuko is Xiashan's mistress, the money was not given to her that day. In addition, Xiashan seems to have a good woman.After investigation, I also learned that I did not meet the woman when I went down the mountain that day.

So who is it? Here I can add an explanation of what I mentioned earlier, that Xiashan has its own intelligence network behind the scenes.In other words, it can be imagined that it is necessary to meet someone who provided him with information when going down the mountain on the morning of the 5th.With regard to the internal situation of the national railway union, that person can provide extremely valuable information.According to my guess, that person is not a second-rate or third-rate "inquiry", just because he has some contacts with the trade union, and he gets some information from hearsay and sells it, but a subtle political movement of the Central Struggle Committee of the National Railway Workers Union. people who can be reached.

At ten o'clock in the morning on the 5th, I was going down the mountain to attend the last important meeting on the dismissal issue.In order to report on the meeting, he had to go to the US military headquarters at eleven o'clock.Xiashan must get important reports from the man who often provides him with high-level intelligence before then. For this, he needs money.Of course, he must have paid that man a stipend on a regular basis, and perhaps remembered that the stipend had expired.In short, it is necessary to pay that person a sum of money to go down the mountain.The meeting place was probably inside the Mitsukoshi department store, not far from the subway.This subway can go down from Mitsukoshi Department Store, but it is also accessible from Shirakiya.So I went down the mountain and said to the driver Onishi: "Mitsukoshi is also possible, and Shiroki House is also possible." It means that either side is possible.If you take an underground car, the station next to Mitsukoshi is Shirakiya Station.It can be seen from this that he was on guard and did not let the driver know his true intentions.

So why do you have to tell the driver to "go around to Kanda Station" when going down the mountain? I think going down the mountain probably means meeting that person alone.No matter whether he entered from Mitsukoshi or Shiraki House, anyway, he didn't want anyone to notice his meeting with that person.Perhaps it was because neither of the two shops were open that he wanted to go around to Kanda Station and take an underground train from there to Mitsukoshi.After such a long time, it's time for Mitsukoshi to open the door.Besides, he had to hide his actions from Driver Onishi.In order to go to the meeting place, he can take an underground train from Kanda Station and get off in front of the next stop, Mitsukoshi; he can also take another stop and get off in front of Nihombashi Shirakiya.In other words, Xiashan and that person probably made an appointment to meet somewhere in the three underground tunnels connecting Mitsukoshi, Shirakiya, and Kanda.

But when I came down the mountain to Kanda Station, why didn't I get off? When I went down the mountain, I probably suddenly thought of something: I had to pay a sum of money to the person who was about to meet him.In other words, when he came to Kanda Station, he suddenly thought of giving that person a sum of money as an activity fund or allowance. Thinking of this, I went down the mountain and told the driver Onishi to drive from the front of Kanda Station to Mitsukoshi.At that time, he had already decided to detour to the Chiyoda Bank on the way to withdraw money from the vault. The time for the pre-appointed meeting is coming up soon.There was also some delay in going around to the bank to get the money out of the safe.I think that's why the driver Taixi put on full throttle when he went down the mountain, and said, as if angry, "Hurry up."

Downhill stopped the car in front of Chiyoda Bank and went in alone.The organization of the secret vault is special, it cannot be opened with a non-personal key, and there is no outsider inside.Go down the hill and open the safe drawer of the vault, take out a few stacks of banknotes: put them in your pocket.Needless to say, he didn't intend to commit suicide, and he didn't care whether there were spring paintings or anything else in it.If he really meant to die, maybe he'd put a will or something in it.Of course, there was no such thing in the safe drawer. Twenty minutes later, Xiashan came out of the bank.Driver Onishi's car was waiting outside.He sat on it.Going down the mountain, I asked Onishi to "drive quickly", and Onishi drove at full speed, and came to the main gate of Mitsukoshi.Down the hill and out of the car.Department stores are already open.Driver Onishi probably thought that he would go down the mountain to Mitsukoshi to buy things, and he would come out after a while; but he also knew the old problem of going down the mountain, so he was mentally prepared to wait longer. (Yi Neng, a friend of Xiashan and vice minister of the Ministry of Transport, also said in his testimony: "Xiashan has a habit of asking the car to wait for half a day.") Therefore, according to the confession of driver Onishi, from then until five o'clock in the afternoon, he put The car stopped in front of Mitsukoshi and waited for almost eight hours.

The above is my rough inference.Without this inference, it is impossible to understand the mystery of the action of going down the mountain in front of Mitsukoshi and Shirakiya, detouring to Kanda Station, then going to the bank, and then turning back to Mitsukoshi in a hurry. But did you see XX himself on the subway when you went down the mountain?I have doubts about this.I think waiting to go downhill is no longer the original date, but another person with some kind of conspiracy. In the "White Paper on the Downhill Incident", Mitsukoshi's clerks Junko Arai, Kimiko Takada, and Shizuko Nagashima all said in their testimony that they saw a person who looked like the president of Downhill, and they all arrived at 9:30 in the morning. A little after ten.From this period of time, I think it was indeed Shimoyama himself.In particular, there are a few words worthy of our attention in Takada Kimiko's confession: "Two or three men followed a person down the steps at the same time, but I don't know if they were his companions. The person who was followed was a manager-like person, He is in his fifties, about five feet six inches tall, fat, about seventeen or eighteen. He has a broad forehead, neatly combed hair, wears glasses, and behaves elegantly."

After that, Nishimura Toyosanro, who opened the restaurant, said that the downhill he saw on the train that day, and the downhill mentioned in the confession of Gotano station clerk Hagiwara, were not Shimoyama Sororori himself.The passenger that Nagashima Fuko of the Suehiro Hotel saw was not Shimoyama himself.Later, after six o'clock in the evening, what a dozen or so witnesses saw near Gotanno Station was not descending the mountain. Kaga Shanzhixiong deduced that "I think what these people saw was the double of the mountain", which is enough to explain everything.Kaga-san wrote in this article: "I want to make some inferences, just as if I am writing a mystery novel." As far as mystery novels are concerned, it should be said to be quite documentary.

Where did Shimoyama himself go after he met the double of the person he was dating in Mitsukoshi?Where did the double who came down the mountain wandering around Gotanno come from? Let's talk about the stand-in first. It was also clear from the man's behavior when he was resting at Fukuko's hotel in Nagashima that he was an impostor.Here he rested for about two and a half hours.Xiashan is a person who never leaves his cigarette, but that person didn't even smoke one.This can be proved by not leaving a single cigarette butt.Generally speaking, the more thoughtful a smoker is, the more he smokes than usual.Why didn't he smoke a single one after he stayed for two and a half hours?Simply incredible!In order to write this article, when I went to interview the scene of the death in Xiashan, I saw someone offering a box full of "Peace" cigarettes in front of the disaster monument in Xiashan.The pack of cigarettes, wet from the rain, was impressive.People who offer cigarettes probably know that Xiashan likes to smoke.

The guy resting in the hotel probably had some reason for not smoking. Needless to say, he was afraid of leaving saliva on the cigarette butt.It would be bad if his saliva test showed that his blood type was not the same as the AMQ type that went down the mountain. In the later "Murder of the Waitress" (according to "Two Reasonings" (an article in Matsumoto Seicho's collection of essays "The Black Notebook") in 1959, Tomoko Takekawa, a waitress of British Overseas Airways, was murdered. The suspect, the Belgian Catholic priest Bermesieux, has returned to China, and the case is still pending. The priest of a certain church refers to Bermesieux.) In the case, the priest of a certain church was summoned to the Metropolitan Police Department as the main circumstantial evidence .He was afraid of leaving saliva, so he refused to drink water from a teacup.This is already a well-known fact. The female boss Nagashima Fukuko once asked the man to "register in the store book", but he hesitated and said "forget it", being careful not to leave his handwriting.Not only that, but he was very careful not to leave a single fingerprint.There were two hairs on the pillow, which were presumed to be similar to Xia Shan's, but it was not clear whether it was his own.Downhill was seen walking up and down the track between six and seven in the evening, and almost every witness described his attire accurately.It has often been said before that the human eye is unreliable, and reports on experimental results have been made.It is astonishing that, some time after the incident, they could still tell such careful observations: his clothes were dark gray, and his tie was dark blue with gold threads. I don't think the investigating authorities conducted inductive interrogations of the witnesses, but the newspapers have reported the "downhill incident" in a large number of pages in the past few days.It seems fair to say that these witnesses unconsciously etched into their consciousness the impressions they received from the news reports.It is intriguing to compare this situation with the investigation of several witnesses by the Second Investigation Division immediately after the incident, when the witnesses did not tell these details. Of course the character who takes Shimoyama somewhere and Shimoyama's stand-in are not the same person.From this it seems to be judged that this huge project was carried out by several groups. Needless to say, the double who pretended to go down the mountain must be a Japanese, not an individual.Where did he come from?Naturally, he didn't come by his own will, but was ordered by someone to disguise himself and start activities.Now, it will probably never be traced who he is. Here, I would like to quote Ohno Tatsuzo's article again for readers' reference. "The American spy agency will pay these Japanese spies. Those officials who sell secrets will be promoted according to their respective positions. Whether they realize it or not, these pro-American elements are organized into the political and official circles in this way. Go. The Ministry of Intelligence not only completely controls the police and the prosecutor's office, but it also captures the elite spies in its own hands like this. The senior spies are individually mastered, and the junior spies form teams and let them engage in training spies. Work. When a squad is formed, a first lieutenant or second lieutenant is usually appointed as the commander. An organization composed of old soldiers, old and old right-wing elements has a higher status. The method adopted is generally to appoint a person in charge first, and then He came to summon the old subordinates. In addition, he also put the name of the head of the agency and provided all necessary funds. These spies and their agencies took on some tasks to assist the activities of the US spy agencies. The organization and funding of these agencies are now Although the methods have changed, most of the agencies have continued their espionage activities." Several Japanese names appear in this article, but these people are still alive today, so it is not convenient to quote them in this article.Based on the above description, I just want to explain that the leaders of these institutions are all old soldiers with high status, and they also include right-wing elements and defectors from the Communist Party. It can be roughly guessed which agency sent the substitute who pretended to be down the mountain, but it cannot be definitively specified.In short, this double was instructed by someone to pretend to be Xiashan immediately after Xiashan disappeared from Mitsukoshi.The orders accepted by this substitute probably only involved the tasks that he himself should perform, and he didn't know the actual fate of going down the mountain. The above-mentioned testimonies of the people who saw the descending mountain in the vicinity of Gotanno in the evening are almost all correct about the color of the suit and the pattern of the tie worn by the descending mountain.I believe that the suit and tie were indeed descended from the mountain, because it is estimated that all the clothes descended from the mountain were stripped, and only one underwear remained on the body. As mentioned earlier, the underwear was sticky with a layer of black oil during the autopsy.Under normal circumstances, the oil—for example, the oil spilled from the locomotive on the run over corpse—should seep gradually from the jacket to the underwear.It stands to reason that the stain on the top should be deeper, and the closer to the clothes inside, the shallower the stain.The situation is the opposite when going down the mountain: the jacket is not stained, and the stains on the clothes inside are deeper. Xiashan's corpse was indeed wearing only underwear and was in a nude state. There are two conceivable reasons why the murderer made Xiashan naked.One was that his clothes were stripped due to the method of killing, and the other was that the jacket and tie had to be stripped from Xia Shan's body for use as a double.Some eyewitnesses also testified about the time of 6:40 pm on the 5th, and at that time, the descent from the mountain should have been far away to other places.But the suit and tie the eyewitnesses saw lingering near the Gotanno track belonged to Shimoyama himself.This point can also be understood from this passage in the White Paper. Confession of Yamazaki Takeko (43 years old): "I was walking towards the land bridge on the fifth day of July along the descending line of the Joban Line, and I noticed a gentleman in the corn field beyond the iron pillars of the Tobu Line Railway embankment. I wondered: it was getting dark, and such a man How can I work in the field? I stared at him, and he also looked at me. He probably felt a little guilty, so he squatted down and lowered his head to sow grass leaves. I was still watching, but he had no choice but to leave I got up, crossed the track and walked under the land bridge. I followed him, about two feet away. The man walked down the gentle slope thoughtfully, and walked towards the fire watchtower. " As if to confirm the correctness of Yamazaki's testimony, the Identification Section also wrote: "According to the identification, the black wheat husk found in the inner pocket of Xiashan President's clothes and the black wheat husk collected from the vicinity of the site are of the same species." ("White Paper") The words of the eyewitnesses and the results of the identification do coincide exactly.There is no doubt that the stand-in was wearing Xiashan's suit to sow grass leaves and put rye husks in his pocket. Then, what about shoes? With regard to shoes, even the convict had left a loophole.As I said before, the shoes for going down the mountain are brown rubber-soled leather shoes.According to the custom, the people who lived with Xiashan painted ocher shoe polish for him every morning.Xia Shan never asks a shoe shiner to shine his shoes on the street.But the shoes I found had brown shoe polish on them.Ocher and tawny are easily confused.Probably because the shoes were too dirty, another person who didn't know the habit of going down the mountain was careless, thinking that the original ones were brown, so he painted brown shoe polish on them. Probably because the shoes are too dirty, I put on brown shoe polish.This incident also gives us a little inspiration.Most of the shoes that went down the mountain were covered with a lot of dust or rubbish, and probably a special kind of dust or rubbish, from which we can infer the scene—that is, the place where down the mountain was killed.The murderer must have noticed this before he brushed the shoes clean and painted brown shoe polish.Among the relics, a lot of work has been done on the shoes.However, the murderer was not careful enough, and even applied brown shoe polish, revealing flaws. As mentioned earlier, the soles are stained with chlorophyll.The identification department of the Metropolitan Police Department said: "I don't know if the mud on the soles is the same as the mud near the rolling site. The chlorophyll on the soles is plant-based." The first investigation department concluded that "the chlorophyll on the soles is Live Grass Juice". But Dr. Akitani, a professor of pharmacology at the University of Tokyo, said: "After inspection, the green juice on the soles is obviously a dye, and it is the same dye that shakes out from the clothes." Needless to say, grass juice is a natural organic matter, and dyes are Chemically processed inorganic substances. If this is of the same nature as the toner shaken out when checking shirts and suits, then it is conceivable that Shimoyama was imprisoned in a place or environment where such dyes or toners were placed.If we can figure out what the dust or garbage was on the shoes before the prisoner carelessly smeared the brown shoe polish on them, it would be easier to infer where Xiashan was imprisoned.

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