The Archive · 1925

RUSSIAN WOMAN'S MISFORTUNES

'Three Months' Imprisonment for Returning to Settlement and Re-expulsion Electricity Department by tumper-ing with the wires, i.e. connecting the main wire. He said that he knew nothing of the affair was not the manager of the place, He was accordingly discharged and shop, which dealt in glassware, was fined $100.

A well-dressed Russian woman Louisa at the Mixed Court fon Wednesday on a charge of returning to the Settlement after expulsion by the Court.

Police-Sgt. Carney told the Bench that prisoner had been before the [Court before. She had been told that if she came before it again she would be imprisoned. She had also been expelled from the French Concession. Witness arrested the prisoner in Nanking Road on Tuesday fand had "quite a bit of trouble in getting her to the police-st [She screamed and gesticulated, and would not sit quietly in a riesha which the officer secured to take her along. He finally had to pat ier in a motor-car.

Prisoner said that she had come into the Settlement to have her teeth fixed.

The Assessor remarked that he had seen the prisoner twice 01 Tuesday, which the prisoner sai through' an interpreter, was not true. "It is a lie," she cried.

The Court then imposed a sentence of three months and deport tion, whereupon the woman said that the Court could not deport her. Tt had no right to do s0.

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