Tajomaru Murder Essay

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After reading the various statements of what happened it seems Tajomaru 's testimony was the most accurate and he is the most probable to have perpetrated the murder. In the different testimonies offered the information given seemed to indicate him. In comparing the stories, Tajomaru 's confession seemed to most line up with the description given by the woodcutter. There was also inconsistencies with the other testimonies presented by the other two suspects in the proceedings. Also the policeman 's testimony pointed to Tajomaru as the murder. In Tajomaru 's confession he mentioned several things that lined up with the account given by the woodcutter. The place were the murder was committed, in a grove of bamboo and cedar trees. That he fought a sword duel with the victim thus trampling the …show more content…

The woodcutter had mentioned the trampled grass and bamboo leaves in his account saying it looked like there had been a fight. In addition to this, Tajomaru mentions he had killed the victim in a sword fight. This lines up with the wound the woodcutter said he saw on the body [a sword-stroke wound]. Also there was the piece of rope the woodcutter saw which the murder said he had used to tie his victim up with. Moreover, Tajomaru also gives a plausible reason for why he killed the victim, which was his desire for the victims spouse. Finally he even admits to the murder himself, opening himself up to the punishment and defacement to his honor for the crime. There is no reason for him to do this given in the story other than he is responsibly for the murder. The other statements given by the wife of the victim as well as the victim himself through a medium had parts that did not fit the woodcutter 's testimony. In the wife 's story she claimed that she stabbed her husband in the chest with her small sword but this wound not have created the wound that

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