Snow Falling On Cedars

The Japanese Kabuo Miyamoto is accused to have murdered Carl Heine, so he was brought to a trail. The victim was found by sheriff Art Moran. He found Carl's boat at White Sand Bay, but the owner of it was out of sight. They recognised that the fishing net was still in the water so they decided to bring it in. As they pulled the net in they saw Carl Heines dead body in the net. They saw a bing wound on his head. The sheriff said to Nels Gudmundsson, Kabuo's lawer, that there were two different batteries in the batterie holder: a D-6 and a D-8. Carl had just D-8 batteries, but on Kabuo's boat they found 2 D-6, but no spare battery
Horace Whaley, Island County Coroner, found a pink cream came out of Carls mouth. It was air, body liquids an seawater mixed by breathing , which means that Carl was still alive as he drowned in the sea. Whaley also found that the headwound could be caused by Kendo, a japanese fighting method with stick. On Carls boat they found a rope which was different from the others, but on Kabuos boat there were other ropes like this. So it could have been that Kabuo tied his boat together with Carl's boat and left a rope in a hurry. Dr. Whitman tested the blood that was found on a stick which was found on Carls boat, and he had to prove the blood on it. The stick fixed exactly into the wound in Carl's head. But on the stick were no hair and no bone, but if this was the weapon whoch killed Carl there had to be things like this on the stick. The blood was only on the handl of the tool. Sergeant Maples trained Kabuo for the 2. world war. He said that Kabuo is able to kill far larger man then himself with a fishing tool.
Then Kauo told his story what happenend on the sea when he last saw Carl. It wa sa foggy night and the batteries of Carl were dead so Kabuo gave him one of his. But it didn' fit so they had to make more space for the battery, and Carl did that with the stick that Kabuo gave him. While he worked he cut in his hand with the metal and he begun to bleed, so the blood got to the stick. Hatsue had an idea what could happen to Carl afterwards, so she sent Art Moran to the boat to search it. They found out that Carl Heine went on the mast on his boat to put a light up, but then came a big ship and threw him with big it's big waves down from the mast, so he got his head injury and then he fell into his net and finally into the water.