Last August in a house near the Hanshin Terminus, right opposite to a police box, a whole family was done to death with an iron bar. The murder was discovered by a neighbor, and after all details had been widely published, the police forbade mention of it. Incidentally, the Chronicle was fined ¥30 for mentioning that a crime had been committed such was the strictness of the embargo, and there were, in consequence of this procedure, all sorts of rumors about a policeman being the culprit, these rumors being indignantly denied. Suspects were duly arrested and examined in the usual manner. after, at Onoye-dori, a fox was seen and chased and caught in a thicket, where an iron bar, believed to be the weapon with which the murders were committed, was discovered by the hunters. The fox was taken alive, and the Japanese papers reported that when he was produced in the police station—of all extraordinary things to do—a man who was at that time under examination, trembled all over and made a clean breast of the crime. The fox is still a captive but has been deified, and a shrine has been erected for him at Kurakuen, the pleasure resort on the Rokko hill-side. A few days ago the formal dedication ceremony was conducted in the presence of numerous local officials, policemen, and some Japanese newspaper representatives. The shrine has been provided in honor of the creature's 'having at the risk of his life suggested the whereabouts of the concealed weapon.' Anyhow the animal is attracting a number of devotees since his consecration at Kurakuen, including, it is said, police officials and detectives. The new shrine is adorned with the red torii, sembon-nobori, and other adornments peculiar to the shrine of Inari-san. Nothing, by the way, has been heard further of the man who confessed. Perhaps it did not turn out to be him after all, or perhaps he is in prison still awaiting trial. With a deified fox put in as evidence against him, he will have to prove a very good alibi to get off