Inspector Stanton,
Please report to me.
Hongkong, 10th August, 1892.
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Minutes by General Gordon.
A. GORDON,
Honourable Registrar General,
Inspector STANTON's report herewith.
Hongkong, 11th August, 1892.
A. GORDON, Captain Superintendent.
Captain Superintendent,
CENTRAL POLICE STATION,
HONGKONG, 11th August, 1892.
The woman HAK KWAT MAN is alleged to have taken out of the Pó Léung Kuk on the payment of $20 was named CH'AN A YUK, aged about 25, small-footed, and a native of Macao. I am informed she was taken to the Pó Léung Kuk last year from a sly brothel kept by a woman named KWAI-CHA NG, who was subsequently killed while attempting to escape from a house in Circular Pathway when entered by a Brothel Inspector. I am further informed that, in the second Chinese month of this year, A YUK was sent to the Pó Léung Kuk from the Registrar General's Office, when she went to be registered as a prostitute in the Tak Shing brothel, in A Wa Lane, and kept there a few days. The $20 werc, it is said, paid in the third or fourth month of this year. It is said MoK CHI, the Pó Léung Kuk detective, took her from the Harbour Office to the Pó Leung Kuk, that she was detained a day or two and released on payment of the sum stated. Before going to the Harbour Office she had been living with HAK KWAT MAN and his wife on the second floor of a house in Hollywood Road, part of which is occupied by Mr. Lo MUK-KIU, Interpreter in the Registrar General's Department. I am informed that on her release from the Pó Léung Kuk, she went to Singapore with HAK KWAT MAN, and he told people he paid $20 to get her out. A Tung Kun woman, formerly employed in the Tak Hing brothel, returned from Singapore a short time ago and told HAK KWAT MAN's wife that she was employed in Singapore a month by A YUK. This woman is now absent from the Colony. I have heard that A YUK has returned from Singapore and was seen in this Colony last month. She had a daughter two years old, but I do not know if the child was ever in the Pó Léung Kuk with her.
W. STANTON,
Inspector.
Honourable Registrar General,
For your information.
Hongkong, 11th August, 1892.
A. GORDON, Captain Superintendent.