The Archive · 1924

the Settlement

Briutsant Chang, a Chinese resstaurant keeper who was sentenced at the Old Bailey on April 10 to 11 ths in the second division for ing in possession of cocaine, has a particularly livid record, {o the London police. Socially and educationally Chang is far removed from the ordinary Chinese. He is the son of a wealthy Chinese merchant who acts as contractor to the British Admiralty at Shanghai and Hongkong. Evidence was given: that the cocaine was found at Chang's restaurant when the police searched it following the arrest of woman who was convicted and admitted that she had been a drug-taker. Chang denied supplying the woman, and said he did not deal in drugs. He was not aware that the loket of cocaine was in a recess cupboard, and did not know how it got there.

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