OPIUM SCANDAL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10060, 3 June 1910, Page 7

OPIUM SCANDAL.

The case of the cafe-concert singer, known as "Chiffonette," is recalled by the lattßt opium tragedy which has come to light at Brest. The concert singer died in her flat last year after having spent the night id smoking opium] with several companion, including seme navnl officers. Tne otner night Dr. Bechon was called to the rooms of a womai? named Suzanne Rolland, aged 22, who was suffering terrible pairs. She was barely able to spesk, but mat.aetcl to convey to the doctor that she had passed a portion of the previous night i in company with a friend and some naval officers, and that she had I | swallowed six opium pills, to , whicn she attributed the pain she j was fueling. Dr. Bechon ordeied the woman to be takeil to the hos- j pital, where she died an hour later j in feaiful agony. The Prefect has 1 instructed the police to make in- v quiries with a view to ascertaining names of the officers who had spent the tvening with the woman Holland. Coming alter so many other opium scandals, which are still|the subject of judicial inquiry, this new affair has caused a great sensation.