The Archive · 1938

Chinese Couple Die

In "Suicide Pact"

Shanghai, Sept. 21.

What was apparently a "suicide pact" ended the lives yesterday of a Young Chinese couple, believed to be man and wife, who had taken a room fon the second floor of the Tung Fang Hotel, Chekiang Road. They were discovered dead in their room at 1.15 pam, and the cause of death was later Getermined at the Lester Chinese Hospital as poison, self-administered.

According to the hotel register, both the victims of the alleged suicide agreement were named Wang. The man's age was given as 24 years and the woman's as 20. The bodies were taken to the Public Mortuary, where a Chinese Procurator's inquest will be held.

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