Stole money to open their own theatre (1939)

Posts from This Journal “crime” Tag

• Over 4,100 historic images of Shanghai mapped on PastVu

  Highlights of this project appear on the Facebook page Mapping Old Shanghai. Here is a selection of some locations from the latest hundred: A…

• Russians beat the grim record again (1933)

  Katharine Hadley, a Russian woman from Libava (some say, Kazan), came to China in 1917 and worked in cabarets in Harbin, Dairen and Hankow,…

• Second Merchant Allegedly Imitating Wrigley (1934)

  This alarming criminal trend was reported in August 1934: Frenchtown Chinese Selling Migrey Gum The French Poilce have located another alleged…