A LADY OPIUM SMOKER.
A considerable sensation has been caused m Chicago by the discovery of a prominent banker's daughter m a Chinese opium den at night Tho young lady, who is very beautiful, was lyiDg on her back on a Bofa. Sho was ocmpletely under tho influence of tho powerful narcotic. ll or clothing was scattered about the floor, and on her arms, which wero (brown back supporting her head, wero three lnusaivo bracelets Tho room m which Bhe was discovered was one of the filthiest m tho lowest part of Oliicago A few beds wore spread out on the floor, on one of which was strotohed tbo prostrate form of a Chinaman. The odour from opium and filth was aiokening. As, on tho lady rocovpring consciousness, it was ascertained that no foul play had taken place, but that she had entered the don hersolf, and not for the first time, great and almost successful efforts woro nude to hush the matter up.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1511, 19 March 1887, Page 3
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164A LADY OPIUM SMOKER. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1511, 19 March 1887, Page 3
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