THE COLOUR BAR

Hokitika Guardian, 21 June 1932, Page 2

THE COLOUR BAR

U.S, LAW LEADS TO TRAGEDY

WIFE’S SUPREME SACRIFICE.

PARIS, June 15.

Determined not to bo a hindrance to the husband she loved, Mrs Katfiiilco Angell, the pretty Japanese wife of an American student, threw herself from the window of the American Hospital in Paris. | 'She and Mr Angell were students at [ the University of California a few years ago. Th'ey fell in love and were married and lived in Oregon, until the young bride was notified that, as tlie Japanese wife of an American citizen, she could not remain in the country.

i Rather than be separatedj the young couple came here, where Mr Angell tried to find work as a teacher, but he was refused a worker’s permit. Lately their troubles were compffiL cated by Mrs Angell’s illness. Mr Angell applied in vain to the American Immigration Authorities for permission to return home with his wife, Hearing of this, the little Japanese woman threw herself from a window of the. hospital where fill© was undergoing treatment. She was picked up dead. She left a letter tolling her husband that she had decided to sacrifice herself in order that lie might return to hit people and be happy. .Mr Angell hopes that tlier© will be no nil© to pivvent him from faking his wife’s body back to his homeland.