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out of this matter agafast them; that was his reason for not calling thom.
No. 5056.–SEPTEMBER 20, 1879.) and was born in Kobe in Japan. My father was a hawker of vegetables and my mother a needlewoman. My parents being in poor circumstancea gold me to a Chinaman whose name I do not know, some three years ago, who then brought me to Hongkong, and sold me to a young Chinese gentleman. I saw silver money passed between the man who brought me here and the man who bought me, who lived in Lan Kwai Fong Lane,
Fat Col Wan was brought into Court and identified by the witness so the "young gentleman" who bought her when she came horo She lived with him for nearly three years.
Wai Alan, wife of Pan Chi Wan, was brought into Court and Identified by witness as her former mistress,
Witness continued:-During the three years I lived with Pau Chi Wan, I did go neral work as a servant. I ran away from my place as my mistress beat me with a rattan and blamed me for eating a cake which was lost. My mistress beat me on the hands, feet, and back with the handle
The Chief Justice (emphatically): I am very glad to hear it. I will not call them. Sergeant Perry, the amph being called and not answering to her name, proved that he had made diligent search for her He believed she and failed to find her. had gone to Onton; he was told so by her master and mistress.
The Chief Justice said it was not proved to the satisfaction of the Court that the The master amah had left the Colony, and mistress of the girl were his witnesses for that.
THE CHINA MAIL.
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Simla, Sept. 1-Cholera is reported to be bad at Kabul.`
London, Sept. 2-The Czar will meet the Emperor of Germany at Konigsberg.
Madras, Sept. 2-An Intimation bas been recalved at the army head-quarters they do not have one. Whether it was before the Magistrate and there was not the the doors were opened, and found the look- good policy or not was another thing alto-lightest suggestion that she had been puting-glass stuck inside his sleeve.
Defendant admitted three previous con- that the movement of the 4th Regiment of gether. There was not one single overt up by anybody to tell a false story. The not proved on the part of his client to only other polut to which bis Lordship revictions, two for stealing and one for unlaw-native infantry to Rumpa is postponed for justify his conviction. He would be the ferred was what the woman had said about ful possession. He has been out of gaol for the prosent. last man to defend slavery or the nefarious there being so bill of sale in connec- one month, and said the previous charges Prisoner was sent to gaol for six months, practice of buying girls for prostitution, tion with the purchase of this child. If against him had been trumped up. but he appealed to the jurors in the die- any Chinese legality was croated for euch charge of their public duty as judges of a transaction as this by a bill of sale with hard labor.. the guilt or innocence of the prisoner now then this was simply a surreptitious tran- before them not to allow their abhorrence saction without a bill of sale. He directed of slavery and evil practices to lead them the jury's attention again to the points to convict any man whose guilt had not they had to decide, laying particular weight proved. In this case there was not a shadow the largeners of the payment made if of proof, and be felt quite confident the jury the child was to be an adopted daughter or would acquit his client.
only a domestic servant.
The Jury, without retiring, found both prisoners guilty.
DOMESTIC BROLLS.
Aden, Sept. 2-A serious accident, by which two blue-jaoketa were killed and many injured by the capstan bars, has o curred on the flagship Euryalus while anchoring-in stormy weather.
The Acting Attorney General said he could not call them, for the reasons he had indicated. The case was under considera
The Lblef Justice said he certainly would ay; the girl told me her mistress had The Chief Justice said: This is a oase of alive, one, a girl about six years old, the employed by the Afghan Governar, were
tion and had been for some time.
not interfere with any proceedings he might have in contemplation against that young man. He would not be sorry to see him here on another occasion.
fore read.
stitution.
Defondant denied having struck the com-
Emperor of Germany takes place to-day at
Alexandrov.
Aden, Sept. 3The. Anoona, with the of the 22nd August, left here this morning for Bombay at 3 o'cloa's.
Por'smouth, Sept. 2.-The transport London, Sept. 3.--Later advices from St. Crocodile bas sailed for Bombay. Petersburg state that General Tergonkasow and not Lomarkin succeeda General Lazar--
eff.
Keung àto, the first prisoner. The old able to repeat all that was said in Chinese, respect. Of course the girl was told all the Lords questions have been asked, and the went back to the house on the 18th, com- I paid a visit to Brighton on Friday, spending
The Queen's Advocate in Ceylon, Hon, Richard Cayley, has been appointed Chief
(London and China Express, Aug. 15.) Four members of the Chinese Legation Justice of that island.
a considerable time in the Chinese Museum, Deputy Surgeon-General W. A. Mackin- viewing the collection of Archdeacon Gray. non, C.B., from the Colchester Distriot, has been appointed to succeed Deputy Surgeon- General E. Gilborne as chief medical officer at Hongkong, and will leave England by the mail steamer from Southampton 4th prox.
Chan A-fuk was charged with assaulting Complainant stated that she has lived
Simla, Sept. 2-From Kabul a serious Chan-Choi-ping, his wife, on the 16th inst. with the defendant for eight years as his
She has had irregular, Ghilzal levica and Lazarchs near concubine; she was a widow when she first engagement is reported between some went under his protection.
Khelat-i-Ghilzai. The levies, who were The woman being called on to make a
three children by him; two of them are
News statement, said, I have nothing much to
has been received from Afghan Turkistan besteu ber, and so she ran away. She was far larger proportions than the guilt or other about a month old. Since she began worsted, and lost a number of men,
I take shame to myself that the appalling from time to time. On the 16th inst, ho crying and said she would not go back to pocence of the two prisoners at the bar. to live with defendant he has illtreated her the meer of Bokhars, in considera- to coores the rebels of Badakaban, h s her mistress' house.
His Lordship said that in this case the extent of kidnapping, buying and selling came into the house in a bad temper, knoek-tion of the Afghan Government's intention male prisonor Keung Ato was charged with slaves for what I may call ordinary servile ed over a table and broke a lot of crockery abandone l his intention of randing troops in that direction. The Ameer of Bokhara The Acting Attorney General said the unlawfully purchasing & female child for purposes and the buying and selling youngware, he then struck her several blows on
is at Karabi awaiting the arrival of a Rus- same remark as applied to the amal ap the purpose of prostitution in this Colony, females for worse than ordinary slavery has the head and chest, and took the child from of the dust broom; no blood was drawn by plied to another witness Cheung Sam Mui. and the woman was obarged that she sold not presented itself before to me in the light her, and ran out into the street with it; ahe sian prince said to be the son of a sister to
The deposition of the amah was not there.
this chi'd for the specific purpose of pro. it ought. It seems to me that it has been followed him, when she was taken hold of the blows, but many marks were left on
Mr Ng Achoy had not dealt recognised and accepted as an ordinary out by some women who prevented her parauing the Cast. Some Michni Mohmunds who I was not held or tied up my person.
P. 8. Perry, recalled, deposed to having, with the general facts; he had not attempt. turn of Chinese habits and thus that until him further. She went to the Folice Station paid a visit to Kabul stated that the Ameer
with them. while the punishment was being inflicted.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 3-General Lo- It was during the day that the beating took on the 29th July, seen the first prisoner ated for a moment to show that there was no special attention has been excited it has escaped and made a complaint, and, by the advice told them distinctly he had nothing to do place. On the evening of that day, about the Central Police Station, He saw the
but he contended that the specific purpose has forced itself on my notice. In some cases the 18th inst., the defendant came again toarkin has sucgooded General Lazazef. eleven o'clock, I ran away, and went into girl there and got certain instructions. Elesale, that this girl was not sold as a chattel. I public notice. But recently the abomination of the Inspector, took out a summens. On
An interviow between the Czar and the the street. Thad never been beaten before. and the little girl want to the house of of prostituting the child was not present gonvictions have been had; in two notable the house and took away the elder child. in the transaction; that, whatever the instances, although I called for prosecution, She was suckling the younger child when I was wandering about the streets when Cheung Sam Mul and afterwards to the
character of the transaction, prostitution the criminals escaped. They were Chinese in defendant took it away on the 16th inst., I met the second prisoner, who asked house of the first prisoner. Cheung Sam
was not present in the mind as the result respectable position, and I was given to and is suffering from pains in the breast in me what was the matter with me, as.I was Mni was there. Witness undertanda Obi- then crying. I answered, My mistress nese. The first prisoner said, in Lower of the purchasing. Mr Achoy had confined understand that buying children by respect consequence. She does not wish to return himself to the question of Intent merely, able Chinemen as servants was according to to defendant, and is agreeable to his taking has beaten me." The woman then said, Lascar Row, that the first witness was his
Asked how long she and that was the question for the Jury. Chinese customs, and that to attempt to put full charge of the children.
Inspector Grey stated that complainant "Come. I will take you to my place," and adopted daughter. took me to her house. Next morning she had been living with him, he said, "For Was, at the time of the purchase, the it down would be to arouse the projudices
He said his women had
power to dedicate her to prostitution pre- of the Chinese. The practice is on the in-came to the Station and complained of de- told me she was going to sell me to be a three years."
sent in the mind of the purchaser? If they crease. It is in this port and in this Colony fendant's having taken away her child and prostitute. I said I would not go. The brought her from Japan three years ago, second prisoner said,It is very good. Witness got a warrant and arrested first believed that he bought her and gave $60 especially that the so-called Chinese custom refusing to support her. He does not re- for a poor little creature like that, only prevails. Under the English flag slavery collect her saying anything about being You have good clothes and shoes." I then prisoner. He afterwards, on Aug. 4, ar-
Under that flag it does exist in this Colony, asked prisoner how much she was going rested the second prisoner. When the baying regard to her honest service in the it has been said, does not cannot ever be, assaulted.
to the second ordinary duties of life and not for the to sell me for. Prisoner said,"10" I charge was read over Katd-"go cheap ?" The second prisoner prisoner, she said she had sold the power of selling her again or dedi- and is. I believo at this moment more openly plainant, and said she had behaved very said. The person who is going to buy complainant to the first prisoner for $69. cating her to purposes of prostitution, practised than at any former period of ita
away the child, because she did not clothe you will not give more than $10." No- The first prisoner was present. He never then he was entitled to a verdict of not history, Cyprus has been under ou of it badly for the past few years. He always thing more was said on the subject. The spoke. She said she had only $40 herself. guilty. The case he admitted was one in for about a year, and already both in the gave her plenty of food and only took which there was some difficulty in that House of Commons and in the House of it properly, and it got sick. When he second prisoner and I had breakfast to-Some others had $20 of the full sum.
Cross-examined, witness sald he was quite
members of the present Ministry have plainant told him to take away the elder gether and then went to the house of
fiue things that could be. In selling a horse, of course, men often gave him the assured the Country, that slavery in every child as well, as she did not intend to live best corn to be had for some time and form shall be speedily put down there with him any longer. He was annoyed at Complainant said she only wanted the cuddled him up so as to take the eye of Humanity is of no party, and personal what she said, and took the child away. the purchaser and secure a big pries. The liberty is held to be the right of every human woman of course did not tell the girl the being under English law, by I believe defendant bound ovor to keep the peace, as nature of the life sho was to consign her every man of note in England. My re- she did not intend living with him any to; she was to get a fine place for her such cent pleasant personal experience in Eng more, and was afraid he would come and
But here, in annoy her. as she never heard of; she would be land assures me of that.
Hongkong I believe that domestic slavery Defendant was bound over in his own well treated and clothed. All that was lies exists in fast to a great extent. Whatever bail in 100, to keep the pence for twelve of course, the lying that always accompanies
Captain Harry Woodfall Brent (1875) has been selected for the command of the troop- fraud and deceit? Did he believe or con- the law of China may be, the law of Eug- months. sider that the purchase gase him the land must prevail here. If Chinamen are power to sell her as a prostitute and that willing to submit to the law they may re- By the Court -The first prisoner claimed when he chose be could do so. It might main, but on condition of obeying the law
ship Himalaya, vice Edward White, whose Latest Mail Advices: Yokohama (cia the child; he said she was his adopted be ho bought her and kept her there to whether it accords with their notions of
San Fran.) June 29, Shanghai Jane 25, daughter. She had been long with him take advantage of her himself, or to right or wrong or not; and if retaining
period of service had expired. and his woman, he said, in Lower Lascar sell her to a house for prostitutes here, they act contrary to the law they must take
Foodlow June 24, Hongkong July 1.
The P, & O. mail, with the advices dated Row for three years. His woman brought or with the intention of keeping her the consequences. I am perfectly satisfied her from Japan three years ago. She was till she was fit for the prostitute market. that the state of this Colony will attract the his adopted daughter. The girl was pre- Did he pay $60 for that miserable little attention of Parliament when they next he had been to the house to gamble, people above, from China and the Straits Settle- sent then. The compradore said the girl thing for a servant? He would confice assemble. I shall deal with these people came and went without question; a deduc-ments, was delivered, via Brindisi, on the date. The advices from Japan, via San was his servant and had been long with him his address to these points, as Mr Achoy when I shall bave more fully considered tion of seven cash per hundred was made 9th inst., two days in advance of its due room on the top floor, apparently on the The next inward French mail, bringing a and his wife for the last three years past, had very properly rested his case entirely the case. I new direct you, Mr Attorney from the winnings. The third defendant He had missed her about three months ago. on the intent of the man, and would read as General, to prosecute these two people,was always at the door of the gambling Francisco, were received on the 5th inst.
The Acting Attorney General: I inti- watch. The girl, in answer to questions, made a much of the evidenes to them as related to Pau Chio Wan and Wai Alan.
First she said that question. If they believed the old she belonged to the first prisoner and woman said to the girl on the morning mated before that this matter was under then she said Pau Chi Wan, the com- after the found her "I am going to sell you consideration; I do not think I am at liberty
She said her for a prostitute," these words plainly iudi- to say under whose consideration.
His Lordship: 1 direct the prosecution pradore, was her master.
cated the motive with which she was sold, mistress had beaten her and that the ran away. She said she had been taken in and it was not for Counsel to say to and will take the responsibility. It is the course in England and I will pursue it here, The Acting Attorney General: You have band by the second prisoner who found the contrary what was said to the child. her on the streat. She has been living in The testimony of the child seemed to
The publicly directed it; and I will report it to the Tung Wah Hospital since that time him to be the evidence of truth. until to-day.
child was old enough and smart enough the proper quarter. to appreciate facts, but he had considerable doubt whether she was clever enough to invent transactions and circumstances. If Wing Akow-I am a married woman they believed that the woman's motive was living in the same house as the first pri-as thus indicated then that same intention sober. I recollect the second prisoner she oxpressed covers, colours and follows
After he had repeated part of the conversa tion, Mr Ng Aohoy said he was perfectly satisfied that the witness's profession as to bis knowing Chinese was correct.
His Lordship said he was very glad Sergt. Porry had this certificate from Mr Ng Choy, for he was a very deserving man.
Cross-examined by the second prisoner:-
woman sold me to the first prisoner. I am quite certain be is the man I saw. The second prisoner told me that she had sold me to the first prisoner; he heard me being told this, he was there to take delivery of me after the sale. The first prisoner said nothing. I remained at his house, his wife was then present. A good many silver dollars were handed to the old woman by Yon told me there was no bill of male drawn, You also said you had sold the girl for a the first prisoner. I cannot say how much. I stayed with the first prisoner and his daughter. You used the Chinese word wife for a few days and was well treated.meaning to sell, not the word meaning to The ear rings and bangles I now wear were present. gi-en to me by firet prisoner's wife, with whom I went to Singapore in large steamer, attending to my mistress on the way down. When we got to Singapore I was placed in a brothel as a servant, my mistress living in the same house. I remained in the brothel for five or six months, being left there by my mistress who had sold me to another mistress. I had an epileptic fit while living in the brothel at Singapore and was returned to the wife of Keang Atc, who brought me back to Hongkong a long time ago. The wife of the first priester is a rambling statement. large-fooled woman and a proouress. When I returned to Hongkong I wont back to the house of the first prisoner and lived there. I was out walking with the amah one day, and there was some wrangle about me, and the Police interfered. The first prisoner ssid aomething to me about Singapore; I do
pot recollect what it was.
By Mr Ng Achoy:-1 have not seen my parents since I was sold by them about three years ago. When I was met in the street by the old woman, I was crying at the time, and told her that I was a servant in a family house and ran away "in con.
Ey the Acting Attorney General: She was taken there by the Police with the Banation of the Magistrate.
The Chief Justice: The Attorney General at home is constantly ordered by the Court to prosecute. On my responsibility at home The Acting Attorney General: May I ask your Lordship to say on what charge?
The Chief Justice: Under Sections 50 and
I do this.
GAMBLING AGAIN.
Ho A-bung, Wong A-you and Un A-ku, remanded from yesterday on a charge of gambling in a house in the Queen's Road on Tong A-kow, recalled, stated that when the 19th ist, were brought up to-day.
Colonel John Jago, 74th Highlanders, has been appointed commandant of the forces at the Straits Settlements, with effect from the 20th March last.
sequence of being beston by my mistress. bringing that little girl to the house. through the whole transaction. He spoke of No. 4 of 1865, and the woman also for coolie; a friend asked him, to go into the Cape Juby, the harbour of which he has
I did not ask the old woman to take They had a conversation which I cannot to them not as laying down the law but as
bome. The old woman did not say she pitied my condition, but asked me to go home with her and I did no, I stayed in the old woman's house more than ten days, and during that time did not go out I was looked up. I asked to go out; the- second prisoner gave no answer. At the end of about ten days the first prisoner's wife came to the house of the second prisoner and took me to the house of this first prisoner
speak to. The following day the second expressing the common sense view which an assault.
The Attorney General; I have given this prisoner came to the first prisoner and recommended itself to his mind. The
I did not hear what little girl hesitated when the life of a case a good deal of consideration, and as your it was for. The money was dollars; prostitute was set before her. We all Lordship directs a prosecution 1 should bo
Teceived money.
in glad if you would indicate under what ordi- several tecs. The second prisoner wentknow what the prostitution was
The Chief Justice: I have directed it un- away, and I never saw her there after-Japan before the Government took the Lance you think it should come. wards I saw her in the street and pointed matter in hand and dealt with it, and her cut to the police. I heard her charged we might easily believe that even a child der those two sections, and you will exercise at the Police Station with selling the child had heard something of Its borrors. But your discretion on your responsibility in do- and she said, first prisoner being present, they told her that she would have fine ing it.
clothes and so on; they gilded the pill for
her.
She
Inspector Thompson, recalled, said the week's later dates, left Suez, per Messageries. first defendant was arrested by him on the Maritimes steamer Ava, on the 8th inst., The Directors of the P. & 0. Company first defendant was arrested by him of had one day carly, and will probably reach Lon-
6, for being found in a publio gamblingdon on its due date, the 18th inst. house; in that case he was the second de- have appointed Mr F. D. Barnes, formerly fondant and gave his name Ho A-hing.
The first defendant admitted the previous assistant agent at Shanghai, to be an assist- Mr. Donald Mackenzie arrived at Bristol conviction, but said he was a dealer in fire-ant in the Managing Director's department. wood, and was not in the gambling house at on the 10th inst. from Cape Juby, North- all on the day he was arrested.
The second defendant said he was a fisher-West Africa. He is the bearer of a letter of that part of the country, to Lord Salis- not go out to work as the wind was strong; man; on the day he was arrested he did from Sheikh Mohammed Bairort, the ruler mercial relations with England. Mr. Mao-- a friend invited him to breakfast, and he bury, offering to open friendly and com was in the cook-house when he was arrested. kenzie has left a staff of eighteen men at
The third defendant said he was a street gambling house to win money to buy rice; he went in, and shortly afterwards the Po. Bis Worship: Had you ever been in the lice came, and he was arrested. house before?"
Third prisoner: No. His Worship: Why do you call it a gambl-It ing house?
Prisoner: My friend told me it was a fan- I did not gamble tan gambling house. myself, and do not know if my friend won or lost, and do not know the banker or the manager.
The first and second defendants were dis- charged.
The third defendant was fined $10, in default of payment one month's imprison- ment with hard labor, for frequenting a public gaming house.
NEWS BY THE ENGLISH MAIL.
The Attorney General: I cannot if I am I was taken to the house of the first pri-in answer to a question whether the girl soner to be sold by that I do not mean belonged to her, that she did, and also that her as they had done for millions before directed.
The Chief Justice: I direct the prosecu- She hesitated and wavered, to say that I was then sold by the second she sold the girl for 880. prisoner, When the first prisoner's wife
By Mr Ng Anboy-I heard the first asked how much she was to be sold for; tion. I have said as much as I choose to say, So cheap? ahe ex- and will not be questioned by the Attorney came to the old woman's house, I do not prisoner say in his house to the second, she was told $10. know what conversation took place and that He wanted the first witness for a claimed. The poor cblid thought her flesh General.
The Attorney General asked his Lordship did not know that the wife of the first daughter. From that time she remained and blood worth surely more than that. prisoner wanted to buy me for a daughter. In the house until the day of the proces- The jurors knew what had gone forth to look at the new Ordinance, Section 7.
The Chief Justice: If you have any diffi- I do not know what she wanted to purslon; she was treated as a daughter. from England with regard to the value chase me for. I have said that when 1 Re examined have not seen this girl of bread and flesh and blood. She was culty come to the Court in Chambers. was at the first prisoner's house, when the out with the first prisoner's wife. I have told she would be well clothed and treated, There are three cases of kidnapping, &c., at second prisoner got the money, she told sometimes been away for two or three days. and after wavering the little creature did the present Sessions. Those crimes are on me the money was paid by the first pri- The first prisoner's wife has now gone to her assent to it. Did the jury believe that the increase here.
The Attorney General: The matter is al- zoper who was going to adopt me as
She has been gone for conversation took place or did they believe father's bouge. daughter. First prisoner never told me several months. I cannot say whether she that little obild invented the whole; to his ready before the Governor and has been for he bought me for a daughter,
was in the habit of going and coming back. mind it seemed impossible that she could some time; I have received a note to-day Captain J. C. Babot, with the London treated as a daughter in the house. I have This is the first time abe has gone away have invented such a story, impossible for saying no decision has been yet come to
The Chief Justice: I am sure it is the Mail of the 15th August, arrived early this They only her to know what to invent if she desired to not said elsewhere that when the second since she came to Hve there. prisoner met me on the street the anid,
came to live there in March.
work on the feelings of the jury, for he earnest anxiety of the Governor that what afternoon. "I will sell you to some one to be a
By the Court:-The woman went away knew they did feel horror at the system under is right shall be done. No one can appre- which girls and babies were brought here ciate the Governor's efforts in that direction daughter."
Witness' deposition at the Police Court the 5th or 8th moon, (the fifth moon
There were no other cases down for bear- pat in. In it the girl made no reference begins 10th June) before there was anything and sold lato prostitution. The girl's story more than I do.
all through was to his mind the evidence in connection with the Magistracy. whatever to ever having been to Singapore Yen ahing, sergeant interpreter at the and stated only one fact of any importance Central Station, Clated that the first pris which does not come out in the above evidsoner when at the Station said, "That ence, namely that he had told her one day little girl belong my servant girl In the middle of the day when they were
woman brought her from Japan about together in the room, no one else being pre- three years ago." Bent, that he would send her to Singapore to be a prostitute.
I was
By Mr Ng Choy :-I lived in the pr soners house a long time, four or five months. I went about a month ago to see the procession, (the funeral procession of the mother-of Mr Kwok Acheong, which Mr Ng Achor presisted in calling Kwok Acheong's funeral procession). I remained in the first prisoner's house until that time. I would rather go back to the young gentleman, (bis name I don't remember),
My
By Mr Ng Achoy :-I did not hear him say that that girl was bis adopted daughter. Sergeant Perry was there. First prisoner said he had been living in Lasoar Row three yenza and she had been living with him that time.
Police Intelligence. (Before the Hon. O. B. Plunket). Saturday, September 20.
A THIEF PLAYING HIS PART. Ho A-wai, remanded from yesterday on
named Port Vietoria. The wooden house erected on the shore, and the settlement is which he took out from England has been now established.
The despatch of Mr. Baber relative to bis journey to Fa-Chien-Lu has been issued.: is a sketch of the journey, and though necessarily slight, contains sufficient to show that the report which Mr Baber is preparing will be particularly interesting.
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(From Indian Papers.) Simia, Aug. 26.-Major Sir Robert Sandeman has left Khelat for. Kandahar.
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a picture, in describing the sale he was Tuesday at 10 o'clock. of truth; she spoke picturesquely, truly like ing to-day, and the Court then adjourned to mandant at Plevaije protested against the there to take delivery? Either they must believe her to be a witness of truth or they must believe her to be the most wonderful child that was ever in a witcess box.
man no doubt the
had There was treated her with kindness; they had heard the stories, no doubt, of the South Sea Islanders, who when they catch hold of
Lahore, Ang, 26-Mr Brough Symth's a crew of English sailors put them in a cage and treat them with the greatest pose charge of stealing a looking-glass from report on the Alpha Gold Mine is published By the Court :-I am quite sure he zaid sible kindness and feed them up well before the Ko-shing Theatre, was again brought in the last Gezette of India. He states that the character and extent of the working mrvant girl.
they sat them. As to the story of her being up to-day.
Lam A-fuk, the manager of the Choi Siu and experimenta prove that the stone is in some places highly aariferous, but that the This closed the ease for the prosecution. taken down to Singapore in a large steamer Mr Ng Achoy called no witnesses for the great doubt was thrown on it. It was a very Ying Company now performing at the Ko- defence.
singular narrative; bot the fact that she shing Theatre, stated that the glass in Court Company's purposeless zoratchings on the Wright's Level, it is con Mr Ng Achoy addressed the jury at con- had not given these facts when before the belongs to him; he bought it in Maeno for surface have not even proved the character sidered on good authority, would yield fendant. fattier and mother or anywhere else. ***
Defendant stated that he went to the 1,000 ounces or more per ton. The value Reminded by the Chief Justice that had been no immoral motive proved on the lightest to prevent their complete accept- Scores of cases of the same sort of there was also a young lady and a fan part of his client, the first prisoner, who had auce. there awaiting her if she went back to the simply bought the girl to be his servant. thing had come before him; the simple theatre yesterday morning at five o'clock to of the reef cannot be measured by such young gentleman, she still said she would The girl's story was inconsistent of itself, answer given when they were asked,-why secure seats for himself and some friends. reaults, but Mr Smyth obtained 204 ounces rather go there than anywhere else, but and was disproved; at least all that in it did you not state this at the Police Court?" One of the men belonging to the theatre from Wright's Level. The general results (Taken aid also, in reply to his Lordship, that she about the trip to Singapore was false. The was I was not asked about it." They were asked him for the loan of some money, compare favorably with some operations in Calcutta, Sept. 1.-The Court's design had no particular reason for desiring to go story told at the Police Court but not here not to imagine for a moment that this was which he refused to lead, whereon the man Australia. back to him.
about the man threatening to send her to the girl's own narative simply; it was a threatened if he did not lend the money, he Mr. Bozzell said he did not, for reasons Singapore was an extremely improbable etatement elicited by question and answer. would accuse him of stealieg something, and in the Ata-Brenhilda collision case has been he had got, call the compradore Fan one; if any such threat was made, it was flare where perhaps the presence of the Con- told the watchman that he was an old of given against the sailing ship, the steamer Chi Wan, or Wai Alan, his wife. They only an idle word passed in anger and eul give her greater confidence she had told fender and had stolen the glass in Court, being held by the Court entirely free from without the alightest meaning. His client the whole story. If they believed what was Defendant said the glass was not found in blame. Captain Scarr, of the Brenhilda, were here if anybody wanted them.
months, and the officers in charge of the His Lordship said he would call them had told lies at the Station about said about her having been taken to Singa his sleeve, and that he kept a poultry shop has his certificate suspended for three Antonio Francisco said the theatre opens Avs are exonerated from any blame in con. i unite the Attorney General had reasons the child Chinese he was sorry to say pore, the one of course was completely in his own country, Chi Involving's criminal matter in connection were addicted to telling lies; but because proven, and the motive put beyond ques
Berhampore, Sept. 1.-The Rumpa Mun with them, for not caling them, if he he had told lies they were not to convict tion. If she had not been to Singapore who about six o'clock, or a little later, in the neotion with this unfortunate collision,
She had secure seats by pasting names on them, He subdar has arrived here as a State prisoner told him so he would not call them, him of this serious crime which had not could have put this story into her head, morning, and that many Chinese come to s The Atkeney General said there was a besu proved. It was quite a common thing she could not have invented it.
possibility of criminal proceedings arising for Chinese people to buy a daughter is been at the Tang Wah Hospital sinog she was arrested the defendant in the theatre before with numerous followers of bis householde
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