The times and democrat. [volume] (Orangeburg, S.C.) 1881-current, 1911-10-05
VERY SAD TALE
Woman Tells How She Met and Marri'
ed Rer Bad Chinese Husband.
SHE Was bis TEACHER
Was Once a Missionary, and Worked
Among the Chinese Before Her
Marriage to Charlie Song, Who
Now Deals in Opium and Made
Her Lead Immoral Life.
Her Lead Immoral Life.

Now Deals IN opium anu Ahauc
Her Lead Immoral Life.
Government, officials recently raid
ed four shops. in the Chinese quar-
ters of Newark, n. j., and SELL
ed six thousand dollars worth Of
crude opium. The raid followed the
Federal agents arrest of China
man on a ferryboat going from Jer-
sey City to New York Friday night;
he had $500 worth of opium in a
suitcase.
Four Cinnamon, one Charlie Song,
and an American woman, Mrs. Char
lie Song, were taken, but Mrs. Char
lie Song was permitted to go free.
1t is limited that the first arrest and
! the raid were made possible by in
formation she gave.
Mrs. Song declared she is weary
of 1.-The life Of white slavery she
has been leading to which Charlie
Song forced her to descend after she
had been Methodist missionary
among the Chinese of Newark. She
charged, too, that Song has been try
ing to poison her recently; that he
forced her to eat butter which, judg-
ing from its effects, she thinks was
poisoned.
In a shop, No. Is Lafeyatte street,
and in three others in what is known
as the Chinese Arcade, in an alley
off Mulberry street, they arrested Bat
Ling, a merchant, aged twenty-five,
who claimed residence in New
York; Charlie Lum, forty-six; Char
lie Song, fifty-seven, and Ming On,
twenty-nine. Charlie Song and his
white wife were at No. 2 Arcade.
In all four shops opium was found
in cans that had paid duty when Or
iginally imported full Of opium, and
had been properly stamped by the
Government. More than two hun
dred and fifty such cans that had been
used and empty were found in the
cellar of one of the shops raided.
The Federal law forbids refilling
the cans under a heavy penalty
United States Commissioner Jores
held Ling, who is said to be the ring
leader of gang of opium smugglers,
in $4,000 bail, the others in $4,000
bail each. The woman was not taken
to court.
Mrs. Charlie Song said her maiden
name was Mabel A. Weis, that she is
the daughter Of a prosperous farmer
of Washington, Warren County, n.
J. she married a man named Way
ton, who died four months later
Then she went to Newark and join
ed the Centenary Methodist Episco-
pal Church, one of the leading
Methodist churches of the city. She
said she took up missionary work
among the Chinese pupils of the
church's branch Sunday school
There she met Charlie Song seven
years ago; he was intelligent and
seemed particularly anxious to be
taught religion, and, incidentally
English. She fell in love with him
and listened more readily to his i'm
portunities to marry him, because,
she said, she hoped 20 accompany hin
to China, and with his aid to find
larger fields for her missionary work.
The Rev. George H. Dowknott, No.
80 Madison street, this city, married
her to Song in 1905, Mrs. Song said.
Song had professed Christianity
and for several months they Travelled
together doing missionary wort;,
Then Song opened tea store in New
ark; quickly reverting to paganism,
his wife said, and made a slave OF
her to be disposed of as he saw fit to
his friends and customers. Be cause
she rebelled he tried to poison her,
she believes.
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