100 YEARS AGO
Waka Kato, a handsome girl, living in a house owned by Hanshichi Nakagawa in Aoyama, attempted suicide on Sunday afternoon with Shunji Noda, a young medical student, with whom she had kept up conjugal relations, by taking a strong drug. She died early next morning while the man survives. It is reported that Hanshichi and his wife, Tatsu, who knew of the poor standing of Noda, had resolved between themselves to send Waka to Dairen for immoral purposes. On hearing this the girl was aghast but, no good thoughts having come into her mind, she decided to end her life after having persuaded her lover to do the same. Waka was the younger sister of Hanshichi's wife.
75 YEARS AGO