Tried Here Brought from _Hankow the custody of Mr. Edward L. Faupel, U.S. Marshal,, Mrs, Margaret Florence Evers, 48, American, is facing charges of having smuggled narcotics from Peiping to Anyang, Honan, by train fon July.5 and 6, The woman was arrested by the Chinese authorities on July 6, and, after having been held for investiga tion for five days, was turned over to the American authorities. Shortly after her arrival in Shanghai in the Yulin on July 19,, bail of US. {$10,000 was fixed for her.
According to the Chinese afetals, occupants of the Kuang Sheng Hospital in Anyang, where she stayed, became suspicious of her baggage and the Chinese Police were notified. On examination, two of her three bags were found' to contain narcotics. In one bag were six packages of heroin, each weighing 25 ounces, "and in another were 10 packages of narcotics.
Mrs. Evers was said to have told the police that the two bags belonged to one of her Chinese students named Cheng Chia-shun, When she Peiping for Anyang for medical treat ment, Cheng approached her and left the two bags in her compartment, The American woman said she was born in San and came to Shanghai nine years ago as a private English teacher. Her husband died fourteen years ago.
In 1932, she left for Peiping, where she stayed at No, 2 Yang Yi Hutung, giving English lessons to Chinese Students. She left Peiping for Anyang on July 5, Because her husband, a constable attached {o the Nantao branch of the City Government Police Bureau, refused to give her money to purchase new dress, Mrs. Hsu Chow.sze, aged 23, residing in a house off Kuo Hua Road, Nantao, is said to have killed herself by hanging on July 24, recording to reports revealed at the Nantao Police Bureau. rule, and to go on eating it for some ime afterwards, But not many, and certainly no child is allowed to eat the melon, The supplies coming into Shanghai dwindle away and the cries of the coolles tassing the fruit up fon to the foreshore from the heavily laden sampans in the creek below @rift slowly away oh the autumn winds, to be heard no more till the following summer,
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