The Birmingham age-herald., 1924-07-06
TRAP BLIjEBEARD. BY WOMANS WILES
! Opium Ring Chief Caught By British Girl
 Detective

Brilliant Chang has been captured in London. The Chinese Bluebeard, chief of an international drug ring, known from the fashionable homes of Mayfair | to the fantastic alleys of Limehouse, has E met his downfall through his love for the very butterflies of the night clubs whom he destroyed, says the Cleveland Plain Dealer. '. Fate-and Scotland Yard -'sgot" Bril- liant Chang. Ever since Freda Kemp ton, in her flat in Westbourne Grove, killed herself by drinking the contents ! of bottle which Chang is said to have given her, the detectives have been creeping up on Chang.
 More recently, when Margie Keats, { pretty art student, disappeared, the name of Chang was again whispered \ fearfully. The men operatives from E Scotland Yard could not land him, so E women detectives were put on his trail. H And one of theme-young and pretty, :, her name withheld by official secrecy, < but known to the underwo: d as the Countess" s"-succeeded. Y
 A Trail Of Expectations q Margie Keats is still lost, but Chang 2 is in prison. Shortly h, will be deported I to his native China. Behind him stretches the trail of his depredations. with his rise to affluence from Lime house to Park Lane--end ba,.: again. N Chang is an educated Chinese. His real name is Chan Nam lnd he went. to # London just before the war to study en- E gineering. leaving wife and child in Al Canton.
 N He was a spender fir .a the first. # Night life caught his fancy. He fire. < quented the dance to dawn" clubs and expensive cafes, He is the son of good x family and received about $2,500 a year income from his ther's estate.
 This, however, did not carry Chang | very far, and when the war came his income stopped. If it haG not been for that unforeseen happening Chang mig: have taken the degree in science he wanted. He might have returned to his wife and baby.
 Into An Opium Ring
 But he was stranded, and infatuated < by the beauty of women O. the western world. So he quietly opened negotia- tions with an opium ring and estab- < lished den.
 From the first he was successful. One den led to the opening of another. Soon Chang was the proprietor of string of subterranean dives where people of various classes went.
 Chang never appeared ostensibly as the proprietor of these places. He hired managers-other Chinese-and remain led discreetly in the background. The Apolice might discover his hidden estab- lishments and raid them, but they never caught Chang, nor could they prove he was the owner.
 Chang became wealthy. He leased an apartment in Park Lane. in the heart of the smart West End. There he lived a luxurious life.
 Only his close women friends were admitted. 5
 Chang possessed a peculiar fascina- tion. He was little, slim, always dressed in the height Of fashion. Women were charmed. by his gentle, easy manners. his bright, guiltless smile and the pres ents he showered on them.
 A Change In His Traffic
 One thing hampered Chang in his il.
 icit traffic. That was the growing diff ficulty of obtaining opium as govern. ment lines were drawn. tighter by the war. So he suddenly abolished his dens and turned to selling cocaine, which could be obtained from smugglers on the continent. He opened a Chinese res taufant on Regent street.
 By this time the orgies of the London underworld had become the talk of Flu rope. Each night the city was in dark. ness owing to the dangers from German