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KIDNAPPED AND SOLD.
EXPERIENCES OF TWO, CHILDREN IN THE NEW ZERRITORIES.
A strange story was related to Mr. N. Smith, at the Magistracy, yesterday? in which it pas stated that two little. girls were kidnapped by robbers from a village in the New Territory and sold to different people, one of the robbers posing as the father why wished to sell his own children and with the proceeds" purchase a new wife." Unfortunately the man escaped the clutches of the Police, while a woman, who was only an instrument in his bands and bad posed as the children's anat, was arrested and charged with barbouring the two girls, well-knowing them to have been kidnap. ped. without the consent of the parents. Mr. S. B. McElderry, of the Chinese Secretariat, prosecuted He character- ised the offence ng a very serious one.
He mid- there was an armed robbery in August in the New Territories Two) girls were kidnapped and brought to Xaumati, and efforts were made to sell them. The children were ultimately dis posed of to pwo sets of people, defendant posing as their aunt and a man as their father:
Defendant stated that three persona brought the children down and told her that, as there was no food in the village, they were unable to support them any longer and wished to sell them. The man, who accompanied the children, claimed them as his own, and said he was compelled to sell them as he bad no money to purchase rice. She sold the children, 'and the man took the proceeds and dis
appeared
The real for of the two girly stated that the robbers did not take very much away from the house as his family was very poor." He heard that the children had been brought to Hongkong- Ho came here and traced them to Shan-qui дея
A man who had purchased one girl stated that defendant came to his house and said I hear you are in need of a little girl; I have one if you wish to purchase ber. She is my neve; my brother's daughter. His wife died some time ago and he wants money to purchase a new wife." Witness replied that be did not want a child, but he thought his nephew, who had no children of his own, would like to adopt the girl. The nephew ospected the child and then purchased her for $115.
The purchaser of the second girl said she paid 882 The woman told her a similar story to that related by the pre- vious witne
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Defendant: The man naked me to pose
as an ant because otherwise he would not be able to sell the child, and I was foolish enough to do it.
Mr. Smith: I think she has been an instrument, but I do not believe that she knew nothing about the kidnapping Six, months' hard labour.
Two other women, arrested for miding. and abetting the offence, were discharged, One woman said she had been kidnapped by the robbers, who forced her to accom- pany the children and look after them. The second woman said she acted as go between for the sale of the children for a amal commission,
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CHINESE ELOPEMENT.
UNGRATEFUL FRIEND AND ATTRACTIVE WIFE.
At the Magistracy, yesterday, before Mr. N. L. Smith. a Chinese young man was charged with harbouring a married
woman.
The wamin had only been married re cently. Without any apparent cause, she ran away from her husband while they were living in the country, and accom- tendant to Hongkong, where
rented
a cubicle and lived together. husband stated that he had known
for a long time. He was a
of his club and whenever he was
his pay advanced the money
used to
to
sub witness lend him money and had not been paid back. His wife was an attractive woman, and they had been married but a short while. One day she disappeared from tome, where she was surrounded by every comfort, and every effort was trace her but in vain. Witness informed made to hig unele, who came to Hongkong and
my
a result of enquiries, discovered that
the woman was living in a cubicle in Ship Street. Defendant was a frequent visitor at witness's bouse, and had
bees
treated as one of the family. Once de- fendant tried to elope with his (witness's) widowed sister-in-law, but the plot was frustrated and the woman was brought berk This time defendant had taken advantage of the fact that witness was away from home to carry off his wife.
The wife, an attractive woman dressed in the latest Chinese fashion with green silk
Wockings, and satin shoes, bedecked
jewellery, entered the witness-box with & Phe said she was only: nineteen yearn of age, and her husband had not treated her as well as be ought to have done. She left her home and came to Hongkong alone. She knew the city very well, as she was born Defendant was her husband's best friend. She met him on the
by which she
travelled;, he was eat the veseel
as a cook. She rented a cubicle in Ship Street, but denied living with defendant Mr. Smith remarked that he was not
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The principal tenant of the house in which the witness had. rented a cubicle stated that the woman paid the rent. It
"the Was
custom for women to pay the rent because it was they who had the
DR. LE CLERC'S LIVER & KIDNEYS - Money, not the men. (Laughter). De
two days-
Invaluable for demons of the Importami, organis fendant had lived with the woman. for Gravel, Paton the Eack, Gout, Bawumatiem, do, Prios Bs, wading Chemists, or post: frono Di La Defendant's excuse was that he met the Hybrid CopBay Hooks Road, HW-women-in-Hongkong and was told that Lasten, “EKSZÁRD ««Dapotili v Patio, (- 13 she was homeless. He sympathized with CASTIGLIORES New York, 90, BruntAM SPINE her, as he knew the husband, and rentedTM Forobiy Lamy, Lang Austenia, Azia a cubicle. He denied having lived with Sydney and Brisbane: NEW KELIO DES Do her. Jan & sekiazdy Christchurch, Deslin, Wang on; INTER, L. PARC. & Ch, Osloot
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