The Archive · 1926

Suicide Pact in

Tragedy of a Sailor and a Geisha Tsingtao, Aug. 6.

Much excitement was created this morning by the discovery in the outer bay of the bodies of two persons joined together floating about} fon the surfacy of the water. The:

Chinese sampan sailor who dis covered the bodies towed them ashore. They proved to be the corpses of a Japanese man, of about, 385, later identified as a ship's engineer, and of a Japanese geisha, about '23 years old. Their demise was obviously a suicide pact—Router.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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