Japanese Criminal’s Suicide. —Hieo Chilcami, the former army surgeon who allegedly removed the heart from a live Australian soldier to demonstrate how it continued to heat, committed suicide after receiving a summons from the Allied legal authorities, states a Tokio message. He left a letter for his wife stating: “I know I cannot escape punishment. I am taking my life because I cannot endure the humiliation.”
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 67, Issue 93, 30 January 1947, Page 3
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