The Archive · 1928

A SERVANT GIRL'S TRAGEDY

Inquests over the body of a Chis ese coolie, shot while resisting. arrest by the police in East Yuhang Road, and a young Chinese git! who died as a result of opium poisoning, were held in the Public Mortuary on Sept The girl had been employed as a. servant at 654 Broadway, but had been dismissed for her habit of staying out all night. She was, how. ever, allowed to stay in her old room until she found other quarters, and was to this room that she returned. one evening, obviously sick. She was sent to St. Luke's Hospital where she died, Her lover, for} whom she kept the late hours which earned her dismissal, has disappeared from Shanghai, though no signs of foul play have been discovered,

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