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THE HONGKONG GOVERNMENT GAZETTE, 18TM FEBRUARY, 1880.
I ask for a remand met
selling Chinese girls for the purposes of prostitution, and also with selling girls to go to California. and also with being dangerous to the peace and good order of the Colony. Wednesday, in order to produce my evidence.
Remanded until Wednesday, the 7th May.
M. S. TONNOCIY, Acting Registrar Generai.
All the Defendants in Court.
7th May, 1873,
WILLIAM KING, examination continued:-I found all the Defendants on the first floor of this house. I found six girls in the house and three children. The floor was very crowded and semel 'fitted up like a barracoon. There were no gratings to the windows. Four of the girls were in a room by themselves at the back of the house. They were all huddled up together and seemed frightened. The Defendants were in the front part of the house. The girls at the back of the house could not This house has been have got out without passing through the room in which the Defendants were. known to me for a long time as one where young girls were kept to be shipped off to California. About eighteen months ago I saw the 1st Defendant taking two girls from the Canton Wharf.
They were about 14 or 16 years of age. I suspected, from information, that the girls had been brought into the Colony against their will. I followed the 1st Defendant into this very house. I asked her what she was doing with the girls, and she said she was their mother. There were two or three more women in the house. When I arrested the house, there was a girl in it named WONG-A-HI, who was formerly inmate of No. 90 foreign brothel in D'Aguilar Street. I know that this girl WONG-HI belongs to the 1st Defendant, who bought her. The 1st, 2nd and 4th Defendants seemed to have charge of the house.
No questions.
Lo-MING, declared, deposeth :--I am a jeweller and watch-repairer residing at No. 70, Wellington Street. I have resided there about three or four years. I know the 1st Defendant. She lives opposite to me at No. 71, Wellington Street. She has lived there some years, on the first floor. I bave cou- sequently seen a number of girls gcing into and out of the house. They seemed to arrive by steamer. soine in chairs and some walking. I know that the Defendant, from what I have seen of her and the girls whom I have seen going out of the house, was a buyer and seller of young girls to go to Macao.
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LAI-TIM, declared, deposeth:--I am carpenter living at 71, Wellington Street.
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I have always seen a number of young girls being taken in and out of the house. The ages of the girls ranged from 10 to 20 years. There was always a great deal of crying and groaning amongst the giris upstairs. I have not heard any beating, but the girls were constantly crying. The crying was annoying to me and the other people in the shop. The people living in the neighbourhood have, together with myself, suspected that the girls were bought and sold to go to California.
CHAU-CHIN-HO, declared, deposeth:--I am an inmate of No. 60 foreign brothel. I know the 3r! Defendant. She was in the habit last year of taking young girls round about the Colony for sale They were of various ages, from 10 years to over 20. I knew the Defendant wanted to sell the girls. as she asked me if I knew any woman who wants to buy them. She comes from Canton.
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WONG-Hive, declared, deposeth:-I am an unmarried girl of 15 years. I am known here 9; WONG-KAM. My father and mother lived at Wong-Po, in Heung-shan. At eleven years of age. I was taken to Canton by my sister's husband. She sold ine as a servant to the LAM family.
My master Where was owner of the "Tin-Kat" joss-stick seller's shop. I was there about three or
mistress told me that she was going to take me to my sister at Whampoa, the 2nd Defendant was there at the time. She is a relation of my mistress. My mistress and TAI-KU took me into a flower boat. The next morning, I was taken to the Shameen and brought down to Hongkong. I to the same house in which I was found by the Inspector on Monday. This was in the tenth month last I saw the 1st Defendant in the house. There was one girl there. My mistress stopped in the house about three days. My mistress sold me to 1st and 2nd Defendants for $120. The 2nd Defendant is daughter to 1st Defendant. I was put to work sometimes to make clothes. The 4th Defendant came to the house from the country at the beginning of this year.
She brought two She assisted the 1st Defendant in keeping the door. I was never allowed to g** little girls with her.
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