The Archive · 1925

plight of Jim Lee Quong

Jers travelling on a Canadian Nationfal westbound train saw Jim tear up his roll of nearly $4,000, He is an old resident of Toronto and was on his way to China to settle down to a life of ease and comfort, for he had worked hard in a Chinese laundry for 20 years and saved up a small fortune. To-day the unfortunate Chinese is gloating over his deed of ridding himself of the burden of protecting his money from possible thieves, He is in a mental ward while the authorities have pieced together the shattered fortune, which may come in useful to Jim Lee Quong if he "pulls through. jous occasion, The trials, "which cost Canada months in time and several. thou-

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