Muneli Kowabata was born 20 Mar 1891 in Fukuda Mura, Japan. He married in 1922 in Japan to Setsuko (Maiden name unknown).
His wife was pregnant at the time and had filed for divorce, when he tried to kill her and her girlfriend and her girlfriend's husband. Here are the newspaper articles about his crime and her story in 1925.
Page one is in the link below page 2 is posted
https://www.newspapers.com/clip/102369301/muneki-kowabata/
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Strange thing is he had so many different occupations listed on records, pharmacist, wrestler, fireman, farm hand.
He sot his wife twice once in the eye and once in the shoulder, Her girlfriend received 3 bullets to the head, her husband was beaten in the head with the revolver but wasn't as seriously injured. He had a .38 caliber revolver.
Muneki has several passenger lists, he traveled frequently. I also found his Naturalization Card & his WWI Draft Card.
Believe it or not all the victims survived.
I did not find out any further information on him or his wife, I have no idea if the baby survived or not and I would bet she was granted her divorce. This is a sad crazy story, he seemed to have anger issues, I wonder if he was ever released from prison.
One never knows what you find in your family's history, so good, bad or ugly document and post it all, so generations to come can read those stories and share them. They are nothing to be ashamed of, but embrace them as they are and no judging as we did not walk in their shoes or live in their time. If you did then even more important to document it all.
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