WHY A.JAPANESE KILLED A PROFITEER.
Yaimula, the official of the Department of Commerce, who is now on trial for the murder of a rice importer in June, takes high moral ground, says the Tokio correspondent of the Daily Express, He slew his victim, he says, because his wickedness unfitted him to live. His actions showed him as a man likely to cause more food riots. Therefore Yamada came to the conclusion tha t it would benefit the world to be quit of “this heartless, avaricious man.” The public is intensely interested in the case. Yamada, has engaged a swarm of hvwyers, and evidently intends to make a prolonged light. It is alleged that the rice dealer —a profited — avus lured to Yamada's house, and avcul there Avitli £5.000, expecting to obtain some concession regarding the importation of rice. The man was clubbed to death av ith a baseball bat, after Avhicb the body was mutilated, packed in a trunk, sent, by train to ■ Northern Japan, and thrown into a river.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2081, 24 January 1920, Page 4
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170WHY A.JAPANESE KILLED A PROFITEER. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLII, Issue 2081, 24 January 1920, Page 4
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