HOPELESS LOVE AFFAIR.
TOKIO SOCIETY SENSATION.
DOUBLE SUICIDE,
lElec. Tel Copyrleht—United Pi-ess Assn (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.)
(Received July 11. 9.30 a.m.) TOKIO, July 9.
A sensation lias been caused in Tokio society by tho discovery to-day of the bodies in Tokio of Arishma, the most popular novelist of Japan, and Mrs Akiko Hatano, leader of the Japanese women's movement- and the wife of a prominent business man, hanging from silk scarfs, in a villa belonging to Arishma.
It was a case of double suicide, arising out of a hopeless lov© affair.
A letter to the woman's husband urged him to take the matter with equanimity and to make no excuse to his friends, because' she and Arishma Were only following their fate. The couple disappeared a month ago, hilt friends had not informed the ]K)lico and did not conduct a, search. Tradesmen, forcing an entrance to tho villa, found the bodies.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16175, 11 July 1923, Page 3
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