MURDER AT PEKING
Rickshaw Boy Arrested On Serious Charge.
Press Association—Copyright. Peking, January 11
While washing a cushion cover today a rickshaw boy was arrested on a charge concerning the murder of Miss Palema Werner, the 17-ycar-old daughter of the- former consul for Foochow. He told the police that the cover was soiled by a drunken foreigner.
Doctors who made a post-mortem examination of the body of Miss
Werner suggest that she was murdered indoors and that her body was subsequently dumped in a ditch.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5
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85MURDER AT PEKING Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 332, 13 January 1937, Page 5
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