Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1894 — MAD WITH JEALOUSY. [ARTICLE]

MAD WITH JEALOUSY.

An Awfiil Record Made by a Japanese Husband in One Day. ' san Francisco Chronicle. Meager details of eight murders sommitted by' one man in the province of Yamato, Japan, was received by the last steamer. Full Particulars show the crimes to have een marked by fiendish ferocity. The victims were the slayer’s wife, a man named Gen taro,and the wife and cnild of a watchman named Genjiro, bis wife’s former lover. All lived in the village of Wakeda. Besides these were a man and his wife and two sons living ih Oyodo. Some months ago the murderer, Tomekichi by name, married a girl who had been living with the family of Genjiro. The latter was a married man with children. At the time Tomekichi married he knew his wife had been intimate with Genjiro, but this knowledge did not deter him. The couple had not been married long before disagreements begat), because Tomekichi suspected his wife of meeting her former lover in secret. After numerous quarrels the couple separated, ljut no divorce had been obtained. The w : fe went to the house of a friend, who gave her shelter. Soon rumors reached the husband that the relations between his wife and her lover had been resumed. He also heard sto-

ries that the lovers had formed a plot to blackmail him. Tomekichi, after taking an affectionate leave of his friends and relatives, proceeded to the place where his wife was staying and induced her to return with him. They left the house together and proceeded some distance to a lonely spot near a pool. At this place the inhuman husband cut his wife in the head with a short Japanese sword. Wheh she fell to the ground he stood over her and with his murderous weapon hacked her repeatedly until life was extinct* Even then his mania for murder was not satisfied, and he mutilated the corpse in a most shocking man ner, as if he would wreak vengeance on her unborn child. After his victim had been almost butchered, Tomekichi sought his wife’s lover. As he neared the latter’s hut he met Genjiro’s wife. He seized her by the hair and cut her throat. He mutilated her body as had his first victim. He then rushed into the hut, but Genjiro was at hit duties as watchman about the fields. But there was one Gen taro lying down in the hut. and mistaking this man for the watchman in his excitement, Tomekichi cut his throat. X.nd here, as before, he wounded th* man in the breast and abdomen and mutilated him in the most horrible manner. Genjiro’s daughter was sleeping quietly, and Tomekichi al! most cut off the poor little infant’s head. Tomekichi then ran to Oyada, seven miles distant, carrying in his hand the blood-dripping sword, where lived a man who had acted as messenger between his wife and her lover. This man’s door, which he reached late at night, was opened by the woman of the bouse. He cut het throat and hastened into the house. Meeting the husband, he cut him as he had the wife, and the man died without resistance. The children were awakened by the noise, and arising from their mat they sought to escape, but the bloodthirsty wretch bad not yet enough of murder. His sword was turned on the children and they were cul down. The murderer surrendered himsell the next morning after a hearty breakfast. He laughed and joked in the most natural manner possible while telling of his bloody deeds.

An attempt was made to asaassfnau Adj. Gen. Tarsney, of Colorado, in th< Union Depot at Kansas City, Friday night. Gen. Tarsney was in Kansas City to secure the arrest of one J. R. Wilson, who is alleged to be one of the gang engaged in the recent tar and feather outrage. 4 Forty acres of lumberyards were burned over at Chicago, Wednesday night. Loss $1,500,006.