FATAL INJURIES.

Wairarapa Age, 12 March 1934, Page 5

FATAL INJURIES.

JAPANESE PAPER MAGNATE’S DEATH. VICTIM OF RECENT ATTACK. (Received Sunday, 6.30 p.m.) TOKIO, March 10. Mr. Sanji Muto died at 9.20 p.m. (Mr. Sanji Muto, president of the "Jiji Shimipo” (independent evening), one of Tokio’s leading newspapers, was shot and critically wounded on Friday While leaving his villa at Kamakura for Tokio. His secretary was killed. The assailant committed suicide. It has been revealed that the assailant, Fukushima, was annoyed at the appropriation of his idea for the municipalisation of the local crematorium on which Muto’s newspaper editorially commented. Fukushima demanded 3000 yen and when this was refused, ambushed Muto and fired). POLICE SUSPICIONS. (Received Sunday, 11.20 p.m.) TOKIO, March 11. Mr. Muto’s assassin left a letter declaring that the motive was a private grudge because Mr. Muto appropriated an idea editorially in the "Jiji Shimpo” but the police are now trying to establish a connection between the murderer and Banchokai, a business association prominently connected with a scandalous shares deal, which Mr. Muto attacked in a series of articles.