Chapter 56 fourth quarter

In May of Showa 32, the Sapporo District Court held the first trial.The prosecutors, Takagiichi, Sawai Tsutomu, and Kosugi Takeo, appeared in court and announced that Murakami Kuniji and Murate Hiromitsu were sentenced to life imprisonment and three years in prison, respectively.They were directly questioned for violating the "prohibition of the use of explosives", committing the crime of coercion and injury, and the crime of accomplices. The real culprit who shot the Shiratori police department was determined to be Sato Hiroshi. The evidence is based on the testimony of the so-called Chaping Yongjia.

Hiroshi Sato was a worker at the pump factory.He is responsible for installing water pumps for the residents, and everyone calls him Lao Bo.He became a member of the Standing Committee under the leadership of Tingping, the person in charge of the Yuanshan Branch.Below I quote the part about Hiroshi Sato's actions after the incident from Tieping's work—the so-called "Tieing Testimony". "Shortly after the 'Shiratori Incident' happened, I went to the home of Hirokun Sato, who shot and killed Section Chief Shiratori, met him, and asked him about the incident in detail. I couldn't open the door, so I slammed it down. I only heard Lao Bo say: "Who is it?" I said: "It's me." After waiting for a while, he slowly came to open the door for me. After he unlocked it, he went straight back to the house. I went back to the house as usual. He took off his shoes and walked into his back room with six mats.

"At this moment, Lao Bo seemed to be putting his feet in to read a newspaper. A newspaper was spread on the mat above or beside the cage, and it seemed that there was a news of the shooting of Section Chief Shiratori. "Old Bo seemed to have recently had his hair cut, and his hair was neatly combed. Perhaps because of this, his face was all the more pale. I remember his eyes were stern and his expression was terrible. "I was a little dubious. I thought: If Lao Bo is the murderer, he will not stay at home. I stood beside the smoker cage and said: 'Damn it.'" Lao Bo said with a serious expression:' Who do you think did it?' I said: 'Is it you?' He then said: 'Well, how did you know?'—he seemed flustered, somewhat wary, and seemed to be wondering about me How could I know. I was relieved after hearing this, and thought: The murderer is indeed him. I said: 'I will know about this kind of thing soon. Of course he will know.' So he said: 'Really? But is Gao Jin reliable?' I said: 'I think he knows, but he won't say it.'—Actually, I wasn't sure.

"I mentioned the cartridge case and asked him: 'What's the matter?' 'How many shots did you fire?' Bo said: 'I pulled the trigger, but only one shot.' 'The other cartridge case was left in the The pistol was wrapped in the towel (maybe he said the cloth).' I asked him: 'Will the shell cover it?' I remember he also said: 'It should have been fired with a bang.' "'Why did you strike in that place? You'll get me in trouble! It's like I'm the murderer.' I said the last sentence as a joke. Old Bo said: 'At first I wanted to wait for him I walked a little closer to the center of the street and started again, but I couldn't do it. Later, I thought it was hopeless, so I broke up with XX (he did say a name, it was probably Lao Lun (Renya Tsuruta)). But I didn't want to let it go, so I followed it. If I passed that place, I couldn't do it. So, although there were a few passers-by, I did it.' I remember that during this conversation, he seemed He also said: "I originally wanted to start in the Mangye area, so that people would think it was done by hooligans."

"I've heard someone say that if you hold a pistol with both hands and pull the trigger, you're sure to hit every shot. I was also very interested in how to jerk off on a bicycle, so I asked Bo: 'How do you do it? ?' He said: 'I stopped pedaling the bike, took out the pistol wrapped in a towel (?), and shot it from the back. After shooting, I rode the bike as usual for a while, but I felt that I had no strength at all. gone.' "We also said the following: "I asked him: 'Will the enemy know?' He said: 'It's too late to get the bicycle, the bicycle I borrowed, maybe it will be found out in the future.'—Like this, he kept talking about the bicycle. I I thought to myself, if I was riding Yin (Yinchuan)’s bicycle, if I rode it all over the street tomorrow and let the police find out, would it be found out that the party did it? This is terrible. I asked him:' Did anyone see you?' He seemed to say, 'I missed something right after I was done.' (He may have said something like: 'I missed someone.')"

The author quotes the tied article at length here, because the authorities judged Hiroshi Sato as the murderer who shot and killed the police department of Shiratori, which was actually based on this passage.In addition, the author also wants to discuss the book "The White Bird Incident" according to my own ideas. To put it bluntly speaking, Hirokai Sato talked about the shooting of the police department of Shiratori in detail like this, and he soon became angry.The authorities did not yet know the situation of the underground organization, and when the investigation of the "Shiratori Incident" was still unclear, he went to the Hokkaido University student Tsuruta on February 2, and then Murakami contacted him, and went to Miaojiashan Station. I went to work in the canteen on the construction site, and went to Kitamieda Yuki to catch herring.Later, he returned to Chitose's door horse, and received the order "It's too dangerous to stay in Chitose, and transfer to Tokachi": He sneaked into Baicang Village.

Soon after, Murakami was arrested, and Hiroshi Sato was covered by the party organization to go to Tokyo, and there was no news after that. Regarding the whereabouts of Hiroshi Sato, there are rumors that he has gone to the CCP area, but this is not true. Chairman Murakami Kuniji was imprisoned in Asahikawa Prison.When the interrogator sent from Sapporo interrogated him, he exercised his right of silence from the very beginning and said nothing.He once kicked away the documents of the prosecutor who was interrogating him, and then slammed his fist on the door to resist.When the interrogation was over, he turned his back on the prosecutor and shouted, "Damn it!"

Soon after, he was extradited to Sapporo and placed in the detention center of the Central Police Station, where he made two attempts to escape.Prosecutor Takagi was in charge of the interrogation at the time. A fight between the prosecutor and Murakami begins.Murakami is the one who has exercised the right to silence from beginning to end.After he was transferred to Ku Xiaomu's prison, he didn't stop his tenacious resistance.Once in court, he was no longer silent, and completely denied the incident.Since then he has been in prison for nine years (so far) of struggle.He can be said to be a real militant Communist.From his notes it appears that he had been subjected to various tortures at the police station.

The only physical evidence in this case was a bullet taken from the body of Section Chief Shiratori who was shot.According to Gao An's confession, before the incident, members of the "Core Self-Defense Force" conducted a pistol live-fire drill on Horomi Ridge above Yuanshan Park.The prosecutor instructed investigators to search the area, and as a result, two bullets were found. Regarding the shooting drills conducted by the five team members under the command of Murakami and Shishido, Gao An’s testimony generally stated as follows: "At that time, each of the five people tried a shot. They all shot in one direction, and they all stretched their arms straight in front of them, standing and shooting. The bullets pierced into the snow four or five meters ahead. We used the Some dead leaves and twigs that fell on the snow four or five meters ahead were used as targets. All five people shot in this way, so the bullets should fall within a diameter of three meters and not be too scattered. It's in the snow next to the site. Everyone just let it fall there, don't remember anyone ever reaching into the snow to pick it up."

According to this confession, the search team searched the scene and found two bullets. The search party lined up on the cleared ground, carefully turning the soil with rakes or sticks and advancing.Two or three hours later, Nakagaki, who was lined up with everyone, said, "Mr. Prosecutor, the bullet was found, is it this?" and pointed it out to him. Sure enough, there was a bright nickel-colored thing on the fluffy leaf mulch and soil mixed with pebbles made of rotted leaves and grass blades.Nakagaki Inspector Chief picked it up, put it in his palm, and held it over.Prosecutor Takagi and Gao An looked around.It is said that Gao An said as soon as he saw it: "Well, that's it. It is indeed plated with silver like this." He said while staring at it with deep emotion.

The question is whether the bullets taken from the Shiratori Police Department are the same as the two found on the exercise range in Horomi Pass—that is, if the rifling marks on the bullets are the same, it means that the correct bullets were used. It was the pistol that shot the Shiratori Police Department. This identification was made by Professor Isobe of the Laboratory of Applied Physical Chemistry, Faculty of Engineering, University of Tokyo.The professor magnified the three bullets with a comparative microscope and photographed them.He pointed out that when a bullet passes through the muzzle, the rifles leave more than a dozen marks on the bullet. Based on the calculation of the consistency of the marks of the rifles and the consistency of their relative positions, there is only one possibility of firing them with different pistols. One-in-a-trillion identification.This identification means that the bullets were definitely fired from the same pistol.There are also many people who have raised doubts about Isobe's identification. Suspicious are the two bullets found from Horomi Pass.One was found a year and eight months after the incident, and the other was found during a second search two years and three months later.That is to say, even though it has been buried for so long in the leaf-corroded soil only one or two centimeters below the ground of Horomi Ridge, the bullet has not rusted much; it is said that it still has a nickel-plated luster. The defense team refuted it based on this point.They think it is very strange that after two or three winters under the severe cold natural conditions of Haromi Ridge, the steel pipes have not rusted at all (according to general conditions, nickel will oxidize not long after it comes into contact with water. film, turns gray). Prosecutors countered that the scene was on a south-facing slope and the ground was dry, so bullets would not be fired.But according to the defender, the area was wooded, shady and in a perishable environment.First of all, it cannot be said that there has not been a single rain or snow on the mountain in the past two or three winters-on this basis, they think the "dry" argument held by the prosecutors is absurd. There is little physical evidence in the "White Bird Incident".The side said the bullet was in the Shiratori Police Department's body, but the pistol that fired it was not found.The bicycle the killer may have been riding was also not found.Moreover, nothing that could be considered to be left by the murderer was found at the scene.Almost all the prosecutors have is situational evidence, and they have constituted a crime based on these determinations. If it is concluded that the bullets found in Horomi Pass were consistent with the rifling marks on the bullets taken from the Shiratori police department, they were fired from the same pistol, then of course it means that Shiratori was shot. The police pistol belonged to a member of the "core self-defense force" who was there for shooting exercises. However, it is strange that Sato Hiroshi, who was judged to be the murderer who directly shot the Shiratori Police Department, did not participate in that shooting exercise. There are different opinions about the bullets found in Horomi Pass.

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