SERIOUS CHARGE
MANUFACTURE OF DRUGS WOMAN PROSECUTED IN CHINA SHANGHAI, Jan. 3 Sensational features are associated with the trial of Mrs. Victor Johnson, wife of an Australian master mariner, •___ who was charged before the Police 1 Court in Shanghai to-day with manufacturing narcotics jjn her residence in the heart of the most select residential district in the city. * ' 1 The seriousness of the case was emphasised by counsel for the prosecution, who said that 114 Chinese were recently executed in this area for a similar offence of dealing in narcotics in contravention of the recently promulgated narcotic suppression laws. Although there was no possibility of a similar penalty being imposed on ac- * cused, the international jspect of the crime had arisen. The police, it was stated, discovered the plant after the outbreak of a small fire. The result was the seizure of large quantities of heroin, cocaine and opium. Extensive equipment was found, elaborately fitted up in an attic. Mrs. Johnson's husband is on his way to England to bring out a ship for a Chinese company.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXII, Issue 22005, 11 January 1935, Page 9
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