Chapter 49 Section fifteen

Let's talk about the grass green paint that has become a problem. As soon as I think about this color, I can't help thinking about the color problem in "The Downhill Incident".A bluish green powder was found in the shirt of the president's dead body, but I don't know what it was. (Refer to "The President of Xiashan National Railway was murdered") From the toner in the "Xiashan Incident", I deduce that the place where Xiashan was kidnapped is related to the factory where the paint was used.I also said that this powder is the same color as the protective color that the US military puts on their weapons.

The same could be said of the grass-green paint on the crowbar in this case.That's not fresh grass green, but dark grass green.Sadly, the color on the exhibit crowbar is now gone, but the fact remains in the court records. Based on this I make the following inferences. I would like to look at it this way: the crowbar had been sitting for a while where the paint had been painted on, and the crowbar accidentally touched it and got the color because the paint was still wet.But there can't be anything in the warehouse of the National Railways painted with grass green paint, and it's completely different from the bright sky blue painted on the signal machine.Dark grass green is the protective color painted on weapons by the US military.

I guess that part of the Matsukawa sabotage team might have come from Sendai.There is a small U.S. military field factory in Sendai, where small aircraft and helicopters are assembled.In addition to Misawa Airport in Aomori Prefecture, there should be an auxiliary airport.Presumably, if the sabotage squad had been selected from the field factory for this particular task, they would have had no shortage of tools to sabotage the railway.Judging from the road studs left as physical evidence, it was not pulled out with a lot of trouble with a wrench.According to the railway experts at the scene, judging from the traces left on the spike, someone once clamped it with a tool that can be pulled out at once.In this way, the work class may have precision tools that Japan does not have.

Besides, it was only natural that the crowbar got grass-green paint by accident.The crowbar may have been in a warehouse where tools painted in this color were stacked.Either the crowbar hit the wet paint on the car (which is the color of the Jeep) in transit. All in all, I'm trying to say that the only murder weapon in this case—the wrench and crowbar—was not, as the prosecutors insisted, a spare railroad tool stolen from a warehouse by the defendant, but something entirely different. s things. But if this sole physical evidence is denied, the whole incident cannot be established.Therefore, the verdict uses ambiguous statements such as "It cannot be said that it is not from the Songchuan Road Maintenance Team" and "It cannot be said that it is impossible to use them to carry out sabotage work" to confirm that they are physical evidence.

Seeing this verdict, I couldn't help but think of the "Imperial Bank Incident". In the "Imperial Bank incident", neither what the poison was used by the murderer was proved, nor how and where the defendant Hirasawa got the poison.The results of tests at the University of Tokyo and other places only said that the poison that killed twelve people was something like potassium cyanide compound, and it has not yet been found out what it is.But in the judgment, at some point it became potassium cyanide, and further became "potassium cyanide that the defendant would have", and the unproven point-how the defendant got it-was Neglected.Potassium cyanide was also the only physical evidence in the "Imperial Bank incident", but the judge actually made a verdict based on such ambiguous arguments.In order to determine the murder weapon, the authorities did not hesitate to use this method, because otherwise it would be difficult to handle. (Refer to "The Mystery of the "Imperial Bank Incident""]

After all, Masao Nomura has been a journalist who has been covering courts for many years. On this point, he and I have the same thoughts. "Hirotsu: Among the opinions of the minority, one of them wrote something like 'don't worry about where you got the wrench'. Probably Mr. Shimoizaka. "Nomura: This is probably similar to the judgment of the 'Imperial Bank Incident'. As I said earlier, where did Hirasawa get the potassium cyanide? Whether it is potassium cyanide or something similar to potassium cyanide has never been determined It was detected. However, the verdict against Hirasawa said: On the whole, the defendant may as well be found guilty. Such a case...

"Hirotsu: The situation in Pyeongtaek is a little different from this, right? "Nomura: Of course there are weights. But the Hirasawa case is also very important. Since twelve people were killed in that case, people always want to know where the poison came from and what its nature is. But this has never been determined." (See "Legal Times", November 1934: "Views on the "Matsukawa Incident" Symposium Record) The "Matsukawa incident" also used the method of "on the whole, the defendant is considered guilty" pointed out in this speech.The prosecutor could neither prove that the crowbar and the wrench belonged to the Songchuan road maintenance team, nor did he draw a conclusion based on the appraisal that the defendant had used a live wrench when he did sabotage work at the scene.It would be a serious problem if suspicious evidence about the murder weapon was fabricated and judged as "physical evidence" just on the grounds that "it would be too inconvenient for such a major case to fail to find the culprit".

I think the monkey wrench, which has no trace of being used on the scene, is a fake physical evidence.If the crowbar engraved with the X.Y mark is not a field tool used by the troops responsible for transporting supplies that is closely related to the US War Department, it is a tool handmade by soldiers with gauge tie rods for fun.The accident report originally written by the National Railways stated that the crowbar had traces of being used at work.This is now difficult to prove.Even if this is admitted, it is not necessarily sufficient to prove that it was used on the scene in Matsukawa.From the connection of the vertical stripes above, maybe it has been used in other uses that we can't imagine.In short, my explanation is: the crowbar, like the monkey wrench, was not used on the scene, but was placed on the scene by the real murderers for a disguise, and they then fled.