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Little Girl Tied up, Beaten and Burned.
THE HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 1921
girl's left buttock. The girl ap- peared to have been well-avurished and was intelligent. Alt her injuries ware of a supericial natùrs and would not leave siy after effects,
In reply to his Worship Dr. Moors said that the girl's bum marka might have been caused by the ap- plication of lighted matchez
Son Sai Hai, the servant girl, a short, slender figure, who appeared to be slightly younger than her age as given, said she had been a mui tai to defendant for Ave years. She remembered her parents. My mis tress was nos kind to me,” tinued the girl. "She often beat me with a piece of frewood."
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As this stage Mr. Lindsell asked Dr. Moore if he found any bruises on the girl Dr. Moore said the nail of the fourth finger of the girl's left hand was blackened.
Continuing, the girl said her mis. tress tied her hands behind her back with a cord and fastened her to an iron bed several times, al- leging she was naughty. Her lega were not tied. Her bands were tied; in sach a manner that it was im possible for her to walk or even more. "Once my mistress took out a piece of burning charcoal from » chatty with a pair of tongs and burned my face, arms and feet with it," said the girl "It was painful.
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The Magistrate: What particular | offence had you committed to ofend your mistress that she should have burned you with charcoal like thisji
The girl: She alleged that I was bad and was not deing my work.
Witness added that when she was burned the other inmates of the house were absent. The sores on ber wrists and the mark on her bul- tock were the result of thrashings administered by her mistress. A coil of cord and two bamboo slaba, produced, were recognised by the girl as the articles which were used | by defendant when she punished ber.
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The girl: I call the bamboo slabs firewood.
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The Magistrate, to the girl: Conida't you struggle and run out of the house when your mistress bart- ed you -No. I was burned in the brother-in-law of defendant, depos In reply to further questions by Etchen. The door was shu
ed that defendant's husband went to | Alt, d'Almada, witness said his Fukien on the first moon bis year brother's household consisted of, Cross-examined by Mr. d'Almada, the girl said that sometimes the and was expected to return in the defendant, an amab, the mui-tzai ninth mods. He visited defendant and the dismissed houseboy. He brother of ber mistress's husband once or twice every month to also questioned defendant's amab visited defendant, but he had not supply her with
and on the assault on the servant girl, qaarrelleri with her mistress-provisions 00
the instruchons of, and the amsh supported the girl's Witness remembered her mistress's bis brother. When he west to de- story. brother-in-law once struck a house- fendant's house on the night of Mr. Lindsell asked Sergeant foy employed by defendant. Her the 16th. ult. he beard the,Stimson why the amosh had not defendant's matrai crying. The been called to give evidence. Ser- brother-in-law over some jewellery stair door was shut and he there- geant Stimson replied that the fcre did not enter the house. Hesh absconded after defendant's some time ago, in consequence of lived apposite to defendant and arrest. which defendant weat the Police had frequently beard complainant. A Chinese constable said when Station and made a report. crying, bal the latter bad not be visited defendant's house on the Mr. d'Almada: You have bees wept so bitterly as on the night of 19th, the servant girl handed the taught by defendant's brother-in the 16th. Next morning be re-bamboo slats and the coil of card law to speak evil of your mistress? peated his visit to defendant's to him.
The girl: Yes.
house where he saw defendant's At the conclusion cf the evidence
d'Almada said The Magistrate: The whole story houseboy who had been dismissed. MF
bis client you have told us this afternoon hade also the mui-tsui, but not admitted that she flogged the girl defendant. The following day be on the 16th. but denied burning been taught by defendant's brother paid another visit to the house, and her. Mr d'Almada referred bis again could not see defendant. Worship to the girl's statement Sergeant Stirgson, who prosecut-The multi was crying. She that she had been taught by ber rd, neker his Worship to take into bore marks of baving been besten mistress's brother-in-law to speak consitleration the girl's age. The The girl apprised witness that she against defendant. girl might have been a little nervous WBS bestea, burned and tied to a when the question was put to her. bed by defendant on the night of Mr. d'Amada said his question touse for an hour witness reported the 16th. After waiting in the was very simple.
the matter to the police.
Defendant in her evidence said Examined by Mr d'Almada, she beat the girl on the 16th. witness claimed to be on good because the stole food to eat in the terms with the accused. When kitchen. She did not burn her and asked why he did not wait for could fot account for her
in-law I was burned.
The Magistrate, to the little girl: Did defendant's brother-in-law teach you what to tell the police -Iss.
Mr Lindsell said the girl's state- ment was that she had been taught was true. to say what she had said, but all,
The Magistrate: You have absolutely no explanation as to how the girl got 10 to 12 burn marks on her?
In reply to farther questions by defendant's return on the 18th. to burn marks. Bad feeling existed Mr. d'Almada the girl said that onwards the girl, witness said he law, who once threatened to stop reprimand her for her conduct to- between her and her brother-in- the 16th her zaistress beat her, had advised his sister-in-law on her allowance and turn her out of alleging she was lazy. She was also several occasions to give better her bouse. She remonstrated with Oficer in charge of the Government accused of stealing, eatables, but treatment to her servant girl, but him and refused to leave the She was not defendant look no notice and told house until her husband returned. Ciri Hospital, gave evidence as to she did not steal the condition of the girl when he fogged with a rattan; she was burn him "Mind your own business. It examined ber in hospital on the ed
has nothing to do with you." He Dr. Moore was recalled for cross was disgusted with the clandestine evening of the 18th. ult. The girl,
visits of the dismissed houseboy to he said was suffering from a super-exaininstion by Mr. d'Almeda.
his brother's house, and on 17th. Defendant suggested that her ficial burn over her left car and she} In reply to Mr. d'Almada's alt. he turned the houseboy out of brother-in-law or her amah, who Belore Mr. R. E. Lindsell at the had dried up sores on her face, questions Dr. Moore said that the house. He did not make was also antagonistic to har, Magistracy yesterday Li San-chan, two on her night check and one on burns were different from ordinary allegations against defandant of might have burned the girl with s concubine of a Chiness merchant, each of her upper eye lids. There scratches, in that the injuries misconduct with the houseboy, view to getting defendant into living at No. 20 Hillier Street, was was a recent burn mark on her right was not so in the case of a scratch, watch sad chain of witness's
of burns were all blistera. This The houseboy was wearing the gold trouble. charged on remand with ill-treating forearm and also several scab sores Blisters could be caused by the heat brother on the 17th, and witness the case as a particularly serious The Magistrate said he regarded har servant girl, 10 years old. which might have been the result of of chemicals and strong liquid. matched the jewellery from the one and sentenced"defendant to
burns. On the left forcaun there Mr d'Almada: Could the little houseboy. The watch and chain) three months' hard labour: was also a superficial burn just girl have scalded her left ear? had been left to the care of defend.
Were Dr Moore': Possibly.
sat and ware
in police custody.
WELL-KNOWN JUDGE TO When asked by the Magistrate whether he knew defendant had
Mr. Justice Horridge, the made a report to the police some Divorce Court judge is shortly to time ago about the jewellery be married to Mrs. May Ethel
Blimson Sergeant
dhe Markham. The wedding will take believed defendant had bad place at All Saints, Ennismore So Wah Sang, master of a Chin-a row with her brother-in-law over gardens. Mr. Justice Horridge.is‡⠀ ove bank, No. 6, Hurd Skeet, the the jewallery
When defendant was first charged before the Magistrate it was alleged by the police that she burned the below the elbow. There girl's face with matches and beat several dry sores on the left wrist, her with pieces of baraboo, one of which might have been caused by on the left and right insteps of the Mr d'Almada: Could the burns which produced bore blood stains. other injuries. The nail of the girl have been the result of the
Mr. F. X. d'Almada appeared for fourth finger of the left hand was girl having been scalded? the delence. He, however, did not blackened. There were three super- De klocre said that he could only appear in Court until the girl's ficial burps on the right and left say that they were burns. evidence was nearly completed insteps. Witness noticed a smal
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