FULL TEXT: Tokyo.— A crime that reads like one of Cynthia Stockley’s
African horrors and makes the story of Bluebeard mild by comparison has
been discovered in a Tokyo suburb.
Jukichi Tanaka, thirty-five
years old, and his wife, thirty-one, have been arrested on a charge of
starving to death eight children whom they had adopted in consideration
of dowries amounting to about $35 each. The crimes, covering three
years, were discovered by the police when they were called to
investigate the rumor that the couple were starving two children whom
they had recently adopted after receiving the dowries.
When the
officers rescued the children one was so weakened by hunger that he died
and the other is being cared for by the authorities.
According
to the Japanese institution of adoption, parents who cannot afford to
give their children the best opportunities may offer them to more
affluent families who are childless or packing in a male heir. It is
frequently customary for the family to pay a dowry to the family
adopting the child. The Tanaka family represented themselves as being
in prosperous circumstances.
A grewsome collection of human bones was discovered in a closet in the Tanaka home.
[“Infants
Starved To Death For Dowries - Eight Murders Charged to Tokyo (Japan)
Couple.” The Kingston Daily Freeman (N.Y.), Sep. 11, 1924, p. 7]
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