SOCIETY SENSATION.
A DOUBLE SUICIDE. A HOPELESS LOVE AFFAIR. Cress Association —Electric Telegraph—Copyrigl (Received Wednesday, 9.50 a.m.) TOKIO, Tuesday. A sensation has been caused in Tokio society by the discovery to-day of the bodies at Tokio of Arisma, the most popular novelist of Japan, and Mrs. Akiko Hatano, leader of the Japanese Woman’s movement, and the wife of a prominent business man, hanging from silk scarfs in the villa belonging to Arishma.
It was a case of double suicide aris ing out of a hopeless love affair.
A letter to the woman’s husband urged him to take the matter with equanimity and "make no excuses to friends because she and Arishma were only following their fate. The couple disappeared a month ago, but friends had not informed the police and did not conduct a search. Tradesmen forcing an entrance into the villa found the bodies.—Aus. and N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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149SOCIETY SENSATION. Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 49, Issue 14960, 11 July 1923, Page 5
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