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When two men visited the boat of Carl Heine, all lights were on, but the owner was absent. When they put in the flue they discovered the death man. After they examined the boat and Carl, it seems to be a foul play.


The American Japanese Kabuo Miyamoto is charged because of following evidence.
At that night Kabuo was at sea, where he met Carl.
On Carl’s boat they found two kinds of batteries, a D8 and a D6 in the battery holder. Carl used D8, Kabuo d6 batteries.
When Carl was exhumed, they found a wound behind his left ear, which came likely from one of those kendo strikes Japanese used. They assumed that Kabuo hit Carl with a gaff. The gaff was found, like a net, on Kabuo’s boat and there was blood from Carl on it.
Kabuo also has a motive.
Once, Kabuo’s family has worked for the Heines. The Miyamotos wanted to buy land from Carl Sr., who did agree to an eight-year, lease-to-own contract. The problem was that laws at that time prevented aliens from owning land. So they make a deal, that after the last payment was made, Carl would deed the land to Kabuo.
But because of the war the Miyamotos had to leave. They ever did the last two payments and after Carl Sr. dead, his wife sold the land to another.
When the war was over and Kabuo came back, he went to Carl to ask for selling him the land again. Carl wanted to think about.

Later it turns out, that Kabuo was innocent. In that foggy night Kabuo helped Carl and gave him one of his batteries, because Carl’s battery was dead. Because Kabuo had only D6 batterys, which are bigger than D8s, they had to prepare the battery holder. By doing this, Carl hurt his hand and blood on the net and Kabuo’s fishing gaff. They talked about the land and Carl agreed to sell his land to Kabuo, who went back to the harbour.
Carl, who has put a lamp to the mast, when his battery died, wanted to put the light down. When he was on the top of mast, he tried to put the lamp away, a wave came, because of a big ship, and Carl fell down. He hit his head on the boat, get unconscious and fell into his own flue. His dead was an accident.