Dramas in real life continue to be! enacted, so no wonder most Russians prefer opera and operetta on the sage and tive scant support Gramatic companies. _A\well-known school-mistress who lost her post in Harbin but had been promised another at one of the stations along the line, took her life on arriving at the latter place and finding out her services were not required, Another woman also in the thirties em~ ployed in the Municipality took strychnine at some friends' house, whilst the latter were away making h a call, assistance thus ing too Tate.
In this ease losses at cards indulged There have lately also been some interesting Court cases in which the accused were Russian women.
In one instance the Public Proseeutor appealed to the Migher Court against the acquittal of three women who had been charged with being implicated in the murder of Chinese colporteur at one of the settlements along the railway line. The Higher Court upheld the appeal and all the three women were sentenced to seven years' hard labour. In another instance a Russian woman received a life-sentence for: having murdered her husband Manchuli station, the Judge at the time pointing out that it was only because she was a woman he had rot passed the sentence of death upon her, the-crime being a most brutal and revolting one.
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