The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1911-10-11
VERY SAD TALE
Woman Tells How She Het and harIi.
ed Her Bad Chinese HusbaEd.
She Was BIS TEACHER
v.,s Once a Missionary, and Worked
Among the Chinese Before Her
Marriage to Charlie Song, Who
Vow Deals in Opium and Made
Her Lead Immoral Life.

Her l-S1O
Government officials recently raid
ed four shops in the Chinese quar-
tiers of Newark, \. j., and seiz-
ed six thousand dollars worth OF
crude opium. The raid followed the
Federal agents arrest of China
man on ferryboat going from Jer-
sew City to New York Friday night;
sie had $500 worth of opium in a
suitcase.
Four Cinnamon, one Charlie Song,
and an American woman, Mrs. Char
lie Song, were takel, but Mrs. Char
lie Song was permitted to go free.
1t is hinted that the first arrest and
the raid were made possible by in
formation she gave.
Mrs. Song declared she is weary
OF 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 shop, No. 5 Lafeyatte street,
and in three others in what is known
as the Chinese Arcade, in an alley
off Mulberry street, they arrested Bat
Ling, merchant, aged twenty-five,
who claimed res ience in New
York; Charlie Lum, forty-six; Char
lie Song, ffty-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
igina!ly imported full Of opium, and
had been properly stamped by the
Government. More than two hun
dred and dfty such cans that had been
used and empty were found IL the
cellar of one of the shops raided.
The Federal law forbids reillins
the cans under heavy penalty
/ United States Commissioner Jones
held Ling, who is said to be the ring.
leader of a gang of opium smugglers
| in $4,000 bail, the others in $4,000
bail each. The woman was not takeI
to court.
Mrs. Charlie Song said her nader
name was Mabel A. Weis, that she i:
the daughter of a. prosperous farmel
,of Washington, Warren County, y
/ 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 leadlnE
Methodist churches of the city. sh'
said she took up missionary worl
among the Chinese pupils Of th'
church's branch Sunday school
There she met Charlie Song sever
wears ago; he was intelligent ant
seemed particularly anxious . b.
taught religion. and, incidentally
English. She fell in love with hin
and listened more readily to his i'm
,, pcrtunities to marry him, because
she said, she hoped 20 accompany hin
; to China, and with his aid to hnt
larger fields for her missionary work
The Rev. George H. Dowknott, NO
90 Madison street, this city, marr1e'
her to Song in 1905, Mrs. Song said
Song had professed Christianlt'
and for several months they Travelled
together doing missionary work
!, Then Song opened tea store IN New
ark; quickly revelting to paganlsm
his wife said, and made a. slave o
her to be disposed of as he saw TT t
his friends and customers. Be caus
she rebelled he tried to poison her
she believes.