The story is divided into seven sections, one for each testimony, which are all given in direct speech. The first four are explicitly addressing a "police commissioner" or "magistrate" (orig. "kebiishi"),[2] as written in the sections' titles. The functions of the persons addressed in the last three sections are not mentioned.
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