A Prisoner of Chinese Bandits Again Besieged in Japan From Our Own Correspondent, Tokio, June 28.
Although quite a regiment of Japanese and foreign newspaper men and a veritable battery of cameras were ready to question and "snap" Miss Lucy A. Aldrich, sister-in-law of John D. Rockefeller, who had to go through the humiliating and painful ordeals that befell the passengers of the express train looted at Lincheng on the night of may 6, the relative of the American Croesus managed to evade all the sleuths of the newspaper world in Japan. She was aided by officers of the vessel on whick she arrived, who successfully managed to bluff reporters and photographers into the belief that Miss Aldrich, with the permission of the harbour authorities received by wireless while at sea, had put off in a special motor lau n ch just when the vessel took the pilot aboard, with the express purpose of escaping quizzing newspaper men. Some "fell for" the yarn and hastily made for the shore, while others of less robust faith in the statement of the officers of the ship, said they would prefer to search for themselves. Permission was readily accorded and they trooped down to the purser's cabin to get the right bearings of the state room occupied by Miss Aldrich and, while busily engaged there, a heavily-veiled figure, followed by two others, entered a waiting limousine which made off at a rapid speed towards the hotel section of Yokohama. The occupants were Miss Aldrich, Miss M, A. McFadden, her travelling companion, and Misg Schonberg, wald to Miss Aldrich.
As soon ag_the newspapermen discovered that Miss Aldrich
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