The French police were notified on Sunday afternoon by the. manager of the Bing An Chinese hotel that the occupants of Room No. 20, a man and a woman, had not been heard from all day and did not respond to knocks. The door was thereupon forced and two bodies were found, the man showing no signs of life, but the woman still alive. She was taken at once to the Shantung Road Hospital but died a few minutes after she reached there. The cause of death was opium poisoning, 10 small cases of liquid opium being found on the table, A letter written by the man stated that his reason for suicide was because he had embezzled the funds of his employer, the manager of a Chinese export and import firm in Alley 1, Rue Montauban, where he was book-keeper. His letter implicated another employee who has since been arrested.
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