Necropolis of Russian Shanghai (Некрополь русского Шанхая) record
- ID: 1998
- Surname: Wexler (Veksler)
- Forename and paternity: Margaret
- Фамилия: Векслер
- Имя и отчество: Маргарита
- S: f
- Date of birth // Дата рождения: 1916 circa
- Date of death // Дата смерти: 1938-09-30
- Details of death // Детали смерти: Hit by beer bottle
- Burial place // Место захоронения: Hungjao Road
- Obituary // Некролог: TCP 1938-10-09; NCH 1938-11-02
- Notes // Примечания: Cook boy Yu Yih-yuen, employed by Capt. H. M. Smyth, of Broadway Mansions, killed Wexler at Smyth’s home, claiming later that she scolded him for slackness many times. “Miss Wexler arrived in Shanghai about five years ago and studied for about a year in the Public School for Girls. Not long afterward she married Alfred Haimovich and they were later separated. For a time she was employed in a cafeteria known as Kleinermann’s on Avenue Joffre. She first knew Captain Smyth about two years ago.” “Wexler allegedly attacked the cookboy, they struggled on the floor, and she bit his finger and scratched his face. When she loosened her grip, the cookboy brought a full pint bottle from a refrigerator and hit her five or six times on the head. He left a calligraphic note on the site of the violence, with the message ‘If you do not succeed in injuring others, you will injure yourself.’ Then he strangled her, covered the body and ransacked the drawers.” The murderer received life sentence. The victim was initially buried in Hungjao Road Cemetery, but her mother R. Mordohovich requested re-burial at the Baikal Road Jewish Cemetery, so the body was buried in a special section reserved for victims of violence.