The Archive · 1929

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Asked by Judge Huang why she had appealed against the decision of the lower court, Mrs. Kao said that the sentence was an unjust one and it had been imposed on her although she was innocent of the crime with which she was charged. The baggage had been placed on board ship by certain friends at Hongkong and-they bore her name although she bad absolutely no knowledge of their contents. Certainly, che did not know that they contained opium. Eleven of the 14 bags she had taken to San Francisco had been put aboard the ship by her friend, Mr. Chen, a Canton ese, whose present address she did know. She became acquainted with Chen in Shanghai when she and. other guests, were invited to luncheon in Avenue Joffre. address? a The What, is Chen's

Mrs, Kao:—I do not know.

Do you think you can lead me to believe that Chen did not tell you hhis address when he entrusted the igs to your care? That he would give you so much valuable stuff without telling you where to corres pond with him?—All I know is that ye formerly lived in North Szechuen Photo by Chung Hua, philosophical' questions that we may look at, thoughtfully, but need not attempt to answer.

Indubitably it is so; that is enough. It happened macy times both before and since that hapless tragedy on Calvary. Some five hundred years before that date there was one, Socrates,

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