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Japan Times 1999: Hayashi admits fraud, denies curry murders

The trial hearing of Masumi Hayashi, who denied killing four people and poisoning 63 at a festival by lacing a pot of curry with arsenic, was the focus of The Japan Times’ front page of May 14, 1999. | THE JAPAN TIMES

May 1, 2024

100 YEARS AGO

Thursday, May 15, 1924

Armed with a map 36 feet long that has taken him 24 months to make, covering the coast lines and islands of Japan, Kamchatka, Alaska and British Columbia, Lieut.-Col. L. G. Broome, now in Tokyo, will climb into the Vickers Vulture flying seaboat of Major MacLaren, British round-the-world flyer, at Yokohama and fly some 6,000 miles with him as guide to Vancouver.

Japan Times 1999: Hayashi admits fraud, denies curry murders

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