The Archive · 1937

Reward in Werner Case!

Increased to $5,000

Peiping, Jan, 22.

The offer of $1,000 for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person persons responsible for. the murder of Miss Pamela Werner, has now been increased to $5,000, according to an announcement tonight by the authorities concerned, There has been no development in the case, although everything {in the nature of a clue, no matter how faint, has been carefully followed up, Miss Werner, who was nineteen years of age, was the daughter of Mr, E. T. C, Werner, formerly of the British" Consular service in China, Her mutilated body was found on the morning of January 8 in a ditch running alongside the Tartar City wall. An Englishman was, arrested as a suspect last week, but he was released after 8 couple of days because of lack of evidence-—Reuter fo pass an examination in which about one-third of the group failed fo qualify. They must continue their Studies "before being admitted baptism, Father King was one of the first two American members of the Society of the Divine Word to come, 8 missionaries to" China—United Fess.

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