DRUG SMUGGLERS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue 1, 2 January 1937, Page 4 (Supplement)

DRUG SMUGGLERS.

"I WAS A DUPE." i CHINESE GIRL'S STORY. "T was the dupe of narcotic smii"fflers,' declared Miss Maria Wcndt, the Cliuipsc girl who is awaiting trial at Eos Angeles on a charge of £10.000 worth of heroin into the country! Revelations of the activities of an international narcotics ring, which followed the suicides of X. LoffenholzBrandstatter. a handsome vouii" Pole well known in Shanghai ni-'ht life, and of Al Stey, formerly superintendent of a German hospital in Shanghai, have stored the. girl into telling her own version of the strange story. When Brandstatter left Shanghai for the United States, Stev, according to her story, told her to go with him as her nurse, and arranged her passage but when she got on board she found no patient. While at sea she received a radiogram from Stey saying Brandstatter would reach the United States before her. Expressing great surprise at the American Customs agents' story of Stey's death, Miss Wendt said, "I had no idea that 541b of heroin found at the bottom of my trunk hpd been secreted there."