Chapter 32 Section VIII
Although I didn't see "him" when I went down the mountain, I met someone who could represent "him"—for example, a liaison officer.So they walked together (see the testimony of the Mitsukoshi clerk), probably did not take the underground car, but walked out from the subway crossing at the head office of Mitsui Bank.It was in the opposite direction to the main gate of Mitsukoshi where Onishi was waiting, and turned a corner where the driver Onishi could not see.From the perspective of the people who arranged the conspiracy, during this period of time, there was not even a single person who knew Xiashan nearby.
When Xiashan walked up from the exit of the subway in the other direction, a car was already waiting for him, and the man asked Xiashan to sit on it.At this time, did Xiashan discover the conspiracy?I think probably haven't noticed yet.Of course, the person who planned the conspiracy must have made perfect arrangements in case he went down the mountain and found himself in a trap.
Readers will probably recall the kidnapping of Mr. Lu Digen.However, the downhill incident happened during the day, and the downhill was a senior Japanese official, so it was impossible to push him into the car with kicks and beatings.If he found out down the mountain, maybe the other party would point a pistol at his flank from the left and right sides-this assumption is not without factual basis.Fortunately, however, this did not happen.In order to meet "him", I went down the mountain and got into the car.The person probably told me that the destination for going down the mountain was very close, and it would take three to five minutes to get there.
At this moment, as usual, the kidnapper's car is the center, with other cars covering the front and back.The car was inconspicuous, and others could not see that it was covering.Xia Shanda was kidnapped once, and there were probably four unobtrusive vehicles covering the narrow road between Mitsukoshi and Mitsui Bank's head office, but Xia Shan didn't notice it.This will be mentioned later.
The car moved.This car probably used a Japanese white license plate when it departed from Mitsukoshi.The car was heading somewhere, and the covering car followed it.We must have changed cars on the way.This time it was probably a car with a yellow license plate.At that time, the yellow license plate marked the car used by foreigners, and the Japanese police had no right to question it.
In general, it can be deduced that when going down the mountain, he was forced to change to this car.It was probably in the vicinity of the Mail Company Building where the headquarters of the US "counterintelligence team" was located at that time.The Ministry of Intelligence has a dedicated room here.It was about halfway down the mountain that I realized I had fallen into a trap, but it was too late.Once you enter the US military building, it is impossible to call for help from the outside world.
Where did the car with the yellow license plate go after that?
Kagayama wrote something to the effect that:
"Someone saw the car that came down the mountain with his own eyes, and said that it was driving from the Capitol to the raccoon. This is said by someone familiar with Xiashan, and it seems to be at least more accurate than other witnesses who have never seen him. Some."
The vice president at the time, Kaga-san, did write an excellent "mystery novel" for us.My guess is about the same as his.why?Because according to their usual means, they will not drive directly to the destination.One reason was the need to allow time to talk in the car with his kidnappers down the mountain, and another reason, of course, was to prevent witnesses from guessing where they were going.
Most of the cars kidnapped down the mountain traveled in zigzags, and the result was from south to north, across the Koshu Highway, Ome Highway, and through the Kawagoe Highway.
So where did Xiashan get kidnapped?The sticky blackened "oil" and the beautiful "color powder" on his underwear can explain it.
However, according to the order of writing, I plan to leave the speculation about the first scene where Xiashan was killed later.
In what way was he killed at the scene going up and down the mountain?Readers are asked to recall the point at the beginning of this article that there was little blood in the corpses that descended from the mountain.The Metropolitan Police Department said: "Because it was raining that day, the blood was washed away." But when it was first discovered, the station chief Saito picked up the body that had descended from the mountain and saw that the small stones below were dry.If there was blood, of course the stones below should be stained with blood.If the blood is washed away by the rain, the pebbles below should also be wet by the rain.However, the pebbles were neither wet by rain nor stained with blood, which seems to prove that there was no rain when they were run down the mountain, and that there was very little blood in the bodies that descended from the mountain from the very beginning.
The investigators must have dug deeply into the soil at the site.However, the results of the inspection showed that there was no blood seeping into the soil.Given the scarcity of blood and the location of the bodies downhill, this leads us to guess a method of killing.
The posture of the descending corpse is lying prone on the railroad track, with the left hand bent and the right hand stretched out of the track.The right shoulder blade going down the mountain is just on the rails.Just think about this fact: Although the corpse was crushed to pieces, only the right arm was broken from the shoulder blade, and the part below the upper arm was still intact.That is to say, due to the broken shoulder blade, the part of the artery passing through the right diaphragmatic fossa was completely crushed.
Among the methods of killing, in addition to using knives and injecting poison, there is also the method of drawing blood.When the Japanese commit crimes, they generally do not think of using the latter method.What kind of method is that?In foreign countries, there is often such a method of drawing blood from the whole body to kill people.In the case of descending the mountain, judging from the fact that the shoulder blade was crushed, it may be that the blood was drawn from the vein in the right diaphragmatic socket. In order to eliminate the traces, the injected place was placed on the rails and let the train run over it?Dr. Guhata also made this inference.
In fact, Xiashan probably died naked, and this has nothing to do with the method of killing.That is to say, is it just a piece of underwear left on his body, held down by the mob and drained of blood?Maybe it was kicked in the vitals, and the blood was drawn out while unconscious. (There is internal bleeding from the penis and testicles.)
Regardless of where the first scene is, what method was used to transport it down the mountain to the second scene—that is, the place where it was run over?
The second scene is on the railway tracks. First, it makes people think that the corpse was transported by train, and secondly, it is probably a car.But the "White Paper" stated that it was impossible to transport the corpse to the scene by train. (Here's the first thing to say.)
Next is the car.But after looking at the scene, you can understand that the car cannot drive to the railroad tracks.The road that a car can drive is far away from the rolling place, so if it is transported by car, the body can only be unloaded there, and then put it horizontally on the rails by manpower.
The First Division of the Metropolitan Police Department initially assumed that Xiashan was murdered, so they conducted an experiment.They made a scarecrow equivalent to the weight of the downhill (twenties), and the scouts moved it to the scene.Regarding this matter, the "White Paper" wrote:
"It is assumed that the dead body was brought from Senju on the other side across the Arakawa River Bridge on the Joban Line. However, according to the results of the investigation, the aisle on the iron bridge was only paved with planks about two feet wide, and the planks were incomplete. The place is still damaged, so it is difficult to walk empty-handed during the day. The longest interval between the up and down trams is 23 minutes, and the shortest interval is four minutes. It takes about ten minutes to walk alone. It is impassable at night. It looks like two or three It seems impossible to carry the dead body and walk there. Besides, it takes about 30 minutes to walk from the iron bridge along the track to the scene. If it is carried, it is impossible for the crew members who want to come to the train or tram to see it. It was once assumed that the dead body was Twenty heavy sandbags were transported to the site from under the land bridge at the intersection of the Joban Line and the Tobu Line, and an experiment was carried out along the passable road, and it was concluded that although it is possible, it is extremely difficult.”
So it doesn't look like it was transported by car.
It is estimated that it takes thirty minutes to walk from the place where the car can drive to the scene, and it is impossible to move the body.Then, apart from using the train, there is absolutely no other way of transportation.In other words, it can only be like this: When the train passes by the scene, throw the body from the car on the railway track at the scene, hide it first, and let the next train run over it.
So, does the situation at the scene conform to this conjecture?As mentioned earlier, there were little blood stains on the sleepers at the scene.For unknown reasons, the American military police came to the scene in a jeep afterwards and scraped off all the blood stains on the sleepers (it is speculated that the American military police were sent by the Criminal Investigation Department).However, the Luminol reaction (Luminol test is a test method used in forensic science to demonstrate bloodstains.) The test proved that the rails were indeed stained with blood.From the rolling scene to the Ueno side—that is, along the direction of the train coming—there is a signal light at a distance of 200 meters, and then 30 meters from there to the Ueno side is a crossing, and the blood is at the crossing. Lines found on sleepers.The luminol reaction of the blood stains was interrupted for about a hundred meters, but when they approached the scene, the blood stains reappeared, and a total of fifty-two were found.
There was also blood on places other than the sleepers.Walking down the railway embankment, there is a slender hut for twisting hemp rope at the site——on the depression on the right side of Ueno.As a result of pouring luminol solution on the hemp rope hut, the door of the hut also had a rather strong reaction.
The University of Tokyo’s Forensic Medicine Laboratory once tested the blood on the sleepers (the Asahi Shimbun reporter Yada found the part that hadn’t been scraped off) to see if it was the same type of blood as President Shimoyama’s.There was only a little bit of blood left, and it was hard to find out that it was of the AMQ type—that was the blood type of President Xiashan, and it was a rare blood type.
In this way, it seems possible to make the following inference: judging from the order of the bloodstains, the body was dropped from the train at the place where the bloodstained sleeper was first found, and someone transported it away; On track now.The body was transported from near the scene to the hemp rope hut, where it was temporarily hidden.At this time, it was carried by the tall man.Therefore, the blood on the door was very high, and it looked like those people had wiped the blood on their hands.
Why were the corpses dropped from the train first moved to the invisible twine hut (there was no one in this lonely hut at the time)?Needless to say, to wait for the next train to come and run it.
So which train brought the body to the scene and left it there?Just look at the trains that passed before the one that ran over the dead bodies.
The Metropolitan Police Department also made such an assumption, and conducted an investigation on the 295th freight car that had passed before the train that rolled down the mountain (869th freight car). The White Paper states:
"The 295th freight train that passed by Wufanye at 10:53 p.m. on July 5 had six empty wagons, 26 passenger cars, and a total of 34 trucks, including locomotives and crew cars. The results of the actual investigation proved that the inference that the train or the attached wagon (towed to Kanamachi Station) was used to transport the corpse and lay it down near the scene is untenable."
That is to say, after investigation, there was no trace of the corpse being dropped from the train.But immediately after this item, there is the following description:
"This train arrived at Tabata Line 1 on the northeastern upbound line at 7:58 p.m. on the 5th, and then reorganized the freight cars. It departed from Line 3 of the station at 9:59 p.m. and arrived at 10:13 p.m. Kitasenju Station. Stopped for about 32 minutes. After that, it did not stop at Ayase. When it stopped at Kanamachi Station, it was overtaken by the 1201 train. At that time, there were part-time workers on board. The conductor Numata is a model conductor .”
From here we can see the problem.In front of the No. 869 freight car that rolled down the mountain was not only the No. 295 freight car towing a passenger car, but also the No. 1201 train-this was the military train of the occupying army.
"A military train of the occupying forces passed the scene at 11:18 p.m. Shortly before the train that rolled down the mountain passed by, the No. 1201 down train passed by the scene, with the driver Jiu Arakawa on board, Two assistants and one flight attendant. This train is owned by the occupying forces, and ordinary people are of course not allowed to take it. It is also subject to time and other restrictions, so there is no doubt about it." ("White Paper"]
For the convenience of readers, the list is as follows:
〈Train〉〈Time passed by the scene〉
295 trucks at 10:53
Train 1201 (for the occupying forces only) 11:18
Train No. 869 (the train at Ruxia Mountain) 0:19
2401 Tram M (body found) 00:25
As a result of the investigation conducted by the Metropolitan Police Department, there was no trace of corpses dropped on the No. 295 truck, so why didn't the Department conduct the same investigation on the No. 1201 train (a military train used by the occupying forces)?The records of the Metropolitan Police Department read: "This train belongs to the relevant parties of the occupying forces, so it cannot be suspected." In this way, it was completely ignored.But no matter what method is assumed, except this military train, no more reasonable guess can be made.
Here comes Sagnon's words.He kept saying "my railway" and threatened that Japan's railways were at his mercy.As far as he has the power, for example, to achieve a certain purpose, it is also a breeze to temporarily let the 1201 military train on the downlink depart.He was in charge of Transport Command, and the timetables were in the hands of the occupying forces.In terms of the authority of the Japanese police at that time, they could only say, as recorded in the record, "This train belongs to the relevant parties of the occupying forces, so there should be no doubt about it", and nothing happened.The sad thing is that no matter how serious the suspicion is, there is no other way to investigate.
The military trucks of the occupying forces passed by the scene at 11:18, and the train that crushed people passed by at 00:19, with an interval of about one hour in between.
Based on this, it can be inferred that after the 1201st train left the body, there was still plenty of time to make preparations, first move it to the hemp rope hut, and then place it on the track for an hour The train that passed by after about 10 minutes came.
The scene of rolling down the mountain is very similar to the photos on the calendar of the Pennsylvania Railroad Company used by the US General Command at that time, so it became a topic of conversation.When President Shimoyama served as the Deputy Minister of Transport, such a calendar hung in the Deputy Minister's Office.
However, it can also be considered as an accidental coincidence.The problem lies in the situation of the corners on the scene.President Xiashan was run over about 50 meters from the curve near Ayase Station.
Speaking of curves, the "Matsukawa incident" and Hokkaido also happened near the curves.
Is this all accidental?The common point that all three times happened near the bend is probably not accidental, but intentional.In other words, the murderer who planned this conspiracy must have the habit of taking advantage of corners or be good at using this method.
If the descending bodies were to be dropped from the train, the train would have to slow down when it came to the bend.As for how to use the curve, the murderer may have done sufficient research in advance.
However, Japan is full of such terrain.However, the murderer must fully estimate the situation of the curve and the surrounding area.
If you plan to load the corpse on the 1201st train and drop it at 11:18 pm on the 5th, you need to have absolute conditions when drawing up the plan.That is to say: there must not be a single person crossing the road nearby, and there must not be a single witness standing.Presumably for this purpose, the murderer spent a few days before July 5 investigating the situation at the scene at this moment.They must have found out that walking backwards along the Tobu Line's railway embankment in the direction of Asakusa from the point where the Tobu Line intersects with the National Tramway (Jiban Line) will never run into anyone.There is a great deal of confidence in this.It was also found that the houses of the residents on both sides of this area were facing the railway. Although there were paths on both sides under the foot of the roadbed, there were no passers-by.In other words, as long as you don't use a car with a loud engine, no one will notice what the murderers are doing there.
The murderers probably conducted a thorough investigation at the scene first, and then made a plan to abandon the corpse down the mountain nearby.
And what happened to the corpses left there?There must have been a few people hiding at the foot of the railway embankment waiting for the train to pass; as soon as the body had been dropped from the train to the scene, they had lifted it up and temporarily put it in a twine hut on the side of the railway embankment.The AMQ-type human blood reaction was found on the nearby railway tracks, and the blood probably dripped from the severed arterial tube in the diaphragmatic socket of the corpse.
In this way the body was temporarily carried to the twine hut.At this time, the guys who carried the corpse probably also had blood on their hands, so they wiped it on the door of the hut.There was still about an hour to go before the scheduled train arrived.Before the eighty-sixty-ninth truck arrived, they carried the corpse from the hemp rope hut to the side of Ayase, which was about 150 meters away—that is, to the side near the land bridge.Human blood reactions were also detected at this location.It is 63 meters from here to the scene of rolling down the mountain, and blood reactions of the same blood type were found in four places.
In this case, the task of bringing the body in and laying it down near the scene, and the task of waiting to put the body in the designated place for the train to run over, were presumably performed by two different shifts.There is no horizontal connection between the two classes, and they act independently according to the orders of their superiors.
The squad that used the train to carry it was probably a special agent in one area, and the squad that received the corpse and put it on the rails was another area's special agent.
It can be said that this method was adopted for all the planning of the "downhill incident".According to their method, the various squads performing tasks are never allowed to have horizontal contact with each other, and no one squad is allowed to take care of the whole process.They usually mobilize special agents from various regions and let each squad work separately.
Therefore, the "downhill incident" is also divided into: kidnapping, responsible for killing at the first scene, transporting the corpse from the first scene (using the train), and receiving the corpse and putting it on the track.They all took orders individually and never knew what the other squads were doing, nor were they told.Of course, the person who directs all this from afar is sitting in a certain building, and he only needs to press the button to start all the functions.That stand-in was also an agent from another area.
This is reminiscent of the various strange things that happened in the Tabata locomotive garage before the "downhill incident".
On the first day of the incident - at about 10:30 am on July 4th, someone called Kiyotaka Miyazaki who worked in the Social Welfare Department of the Railway Kojikai Headquarters in Ueno Hirokoji.
The man said: "I have a word to tell you. Either today or tomorrow, I will go down the mountain and kill you. If you make noise, raise your voice, or make trouble, you don't plan to live."
Miyazaki asked, "Who are you?"
The man said, "Don't worry about who I am. When the time of revolution comes, we will see the outcome on the battlefield. Then you will know who I am." Then he hung up the phone.
At 10:30 am on the 4th, it was the day before President Xia Shan disappeared.There is another incident mentioned earlier: on the day of the incident (the 5th) between 7:00 p.m. Member says:
"Someone just called to say that the president died in a car accident." Then, everyone shouted.Later, I investigated the place where I made the call. It turned out that I used the special railway telephone of the Ministry. According to the operator:
"From 7:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on July 5th, there was a call for No. 67 (Number 67 is the Tokyo branch of the National Railway Union). Liangxi is the indicator light on the upper left of the switchboard, not 22. No. 38 (formerly the flight attendant lounge) is No. 2218 (the staff lounge of the Tabata locomotive depot)."
So, I immediately investigated the calls from these two places.The first place was fine, but Tian Bata's phone was installed just before noon on the 5th, and on the morning of the 6th, the lock of the room where the phone was installed was picked.Apparently someone in this room had used the freshly installed phone and spread the word "President died in a car accident."As mentioned at the beginning of this article, although investigations were carried out on this matter, it was not clear who made the call.
As mentioned earlier, in order to investigate who was on duty on the night shift on the fifth day, the investigators transferred the duty book.At first glance, the part from July 1st to 5th has been torn out.
The caller was probably also the backbone of the secret service team, and his task was probably to make calls such as "President Shimoyama died in a car accident" or "I want to kill Yoshida or Shimoyama".
In addition, the leaflets with the words "Let Shimoyama pray before dawn" or "Kill Shimoyama" and paste them on the land bridge near Shinjuku Koshu Highway must have been done by the secret service squad.This kind of leaflet seemed to have been posted there two or three days before the disappearance of President Xiashan.
That is to say, on the one hand, the secret service team also announced that they would kill people, which fully created the atmosphere that the president would die unexpectedly.This makes one think: the fate of President Xiashan had been decided at least two or three days before his disappearance.Of course, the guys who put up the leaflets and made the phone calls probably didn't know that President Xiashan would really be killed.Maybe they thought that the superiors ordered them to issue "announcements" just to disturb people's hearts.
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