An extraordinary affair, involving the death of a Japanese woman under circumstances which have! led the Settlement police to suspect murder, came to their notice} on Thursday. It appears that, on} Wednesday afternoon, some Chinese found the woman's body in a field; off Scott Road, outside the Settlement limits. There was a scarf wound round her neck and she had apparently been strangled death.
Curiously enough, although there are several Japanese policemen attached to the North Szechuen Road Police Station, apparently not one of them heard of the tragedy, for it was not reported there until late on Thursday afternoon and then by a Sikh policeman, who happened to overhear some coolies speaking of the matter and promptly informed his superiors. Officers were immediately sent out to inquire, but were only in time to meet a hearse taking the coffined body away.
The woman, who was only about 25 years of age, had been a companion of tragedy in more than one way. She was married in Japan, but was divorced, then came' rise to heaven." Perhaps it is this!here last May and, early in July, musical medley that gives the opera married a Japanese sailor.
The its perennial charm. two were not happy together and It is well within the scope of the before the month was out they had Russian Grand Opera Ca., and was separated. Then the woman went very heartily appreciated. The back to her old lodgings at a garage star of the evening was Miss Burs-in Scott Road. Subsequent events kaya. She brought to Azucena, in her career have not yet transpired, 2
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