A Japanese Story Traditional Cache
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In 1897 Kanowna Cemetery was moved to its current location after large Gold deposits were found at the original cemetery site.
A sad story is told in this Cemetery.
A Japanese Story
The cache is a tube like plastic container.
Japanese Story
In the Kanowna Cemetery there is a broken headstone which bears a Japanese inscription. The stone marks the graves of two people, a man, Jinarto Yano, and a woman, known as Osarno, who were murdered on December 10, 1902
Osarno was one of nearly 60 Japanese prostitutes working in Kalgoorlie.
She formed an attachment with a laundryman named Chomatsu Yabu, who later claimed that they had sent marriage papers back to Japan, and were the parents of a child who had died. (This child is also buried here at Kanowna) It appears that the relationship soured and Osarno went to Kanowna, to the protection of Jinarto Yano.
Chomatsu knew where she had gone and when she didn’t respond to requests to return to Kalgoorlie, he travelled to Kanowna, and at about 6:30pm shot them both through the head and then fled.
He attempted to shoot the policeman who apprehended him in Kalgoorlie that night, but Constable Brown shot and injusred Chomatsu.
Chomatsu Yabu was found guilty of wilful murder and sentenced to death. This ws later communted to 20 years imprisonment.
(Information from the board at the Kanowna Cemetery and published in the Kalgoorlie Miner in 1979)
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(Decrypt)
Gur ohfu ybbxf n yvggyr yvxr Wncnarfr Obafnvv