On suspicion that they extorted money írem Victims by posing as police detectives, a Russian.named Boris Konaiff and three Chinese were broüght before the First Special District Court yesterday on a writ of detention. Two other Chinese were arrested last week in coünec-lion with the same case and they will all be heard next week.
It was alleged by the prosecution that the detained men recently collected $120 from a sing song girl in Wai Lo Alley, Foochow Road, as hush money by posing as police detectives searching for opium. It so happened, it was alleged, some opium was actually found in the possession of the girl and therefore at the suggestion given allegedly by the Russian accused the money was Double Sui ide of Chinese In Hotel overed An attractive Chinese girl who had been working as a dancing partner in a well-known ballroom downtown was found dead with an admirer, a former bank clerk, in a room at ihe Paramount Hotel early yesterday morning. Both had succumbed to the effects of poison taken, apparently, as the result of a "suicide pact'
The young couple had engaged the room on Sunday. They were discovered, unconscious, at about 4.45 a.m. yesterday and taken in an am-balance to the Chinese Red Cross Hospital, Avenue Haig. There they were both pronounced dead.
An inquest will be held at the Public Mortuary today by the Procurator of the First Special District Court.
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