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RELEASED MUI-TSAI TELLS SORDID STORY.
Accusations of being concerned in transactions of which the ob- joct was to transfer the possession, custody or control of two mui-tsa, from one party to another for the purposes of prostitution, were con tained in a list of ten serious charges against a man and thres women, brought before Mr. Grantham, yesterday afternoon, at the Central Police Court.
WEDNESDAY, APRIL 16, 1930.
WITNESS FINED FOR PERJURY.
MAGISTRATE DENOUNCES HIM AS A “LIAR.”
trate at the Central Magistracy Mr. Lindsell, the senior Magis- yesterday, dealt severely with a witness whom he found guilty of perjury, fining him $50 or weeks' imprisonment.
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The man was Wan King, who was giving evidence for the pro- secution in a case where a Chl- nese was charged with stealing a quantity of oranges and peas, to the total value of $16.
Wan made a
The accused were Ng Pul-chi, an unemployed man, and Tong Siu-lan, his wife; and also two other women;
rambling state named Lau Sze-koo and Kwan Chaiment in the box, during which he respectively.
Mr. Rendall appeared for the man and his wife, Mr. Hin-shing Lo for Lau Sze-koo, while the third woman was unrepresented.
contradicted himself as to the time and place he saw the defendant, and also as to what he did when the defendant, so it was alleged, left him to obtain oranges. First- 17, he said that he went home. then he said he went to Second Street, and finally to the fruit stall.
Mr. Lindsell said he was a liar, and after warning him that per sistence of such testimony would result in him being sent to gaol. eventually said, "You are fined $50 I can't tolerate per- fury like that in this Court." or 4 weeks.
In outlining the case for the prosecution, Mr. H. R. Butters, of the Secretariat for Chinese Affairs, said that on April 6th Mak Oi and Ng Yan-tsai, mui-tsas employed by Ng Pui-chi and his wife, at their home at No. 13, D'Aguilar Street, went to the police and reported that their employers were arranging to sell them; in the case of Mak Ol to a woman who was to take her to Singapore for the purposes of prostitution, and in the case of Ng Inspector Bloor, who was con- Yan-tsoi to serve again as mui-tsại], ducting the case for the prosecu in another household.
tion, asked for the defendant to The girls were sent to the be discharged, as he did not think Secretary for Chinese Affairs, and it worth while going on.
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He had
on the morning of April 7th, Ser- no evidence to show that defendant geant Mackay, with a party of dis-had been seen with the fruit. trict watchmen, raided the floor on Mr. F. X. d'Almada, Jun., ap- which the married couple lived, at peared for the defendant. No. 13, D'Aguilar Street. There, on being pointed out by the girls, Ng Pui-chi, his wife and the woman Kwan Chai who was named intermediary in the transaction, were arrested.
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Sergeant Mackay next proceeded with the elder mai-tsai to No. 18, Graham Street, where, on the first floor, the arrest was made of an- other woman. She was Lau Sze- koo and came into the case on being implicated as being the person who, on December 19th last, had bought another mai-tsai from the married couple of No. 13, D'Aguilar Street: This girl, Kwok Siu-lan, had be- come a sly prostitute, end, with yet another girl, was living on the floor at Graham Street when the police raided it.
Mak Oi, in the witness-box, stated that she was 18 years of age. She was employed as a mui-tsaj by Ng Pui-chi and his wife, having pre- viously been sold to them by her parents in the country.
She knew Kwok Siu-lan as being at one time, also a mui-tsaï in the same household, having been so employed for three years before she was sold to Lau Sze-koo, who way known as a procuress, on December 19th. The price paid in that transaction was $350.
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upon being sold to Ng Pui-chi, thereafter carrying out the duties of a muts on the floor at D'Aguilar Street until the end of last year."
On December 19th last, Lau Sze- kao appeared on the floor, paid $350 to Ng Pui-chi, and took her away to No. 16 Graham Street. Three days later she took up an undesir able trade "by order of Lau Sze- koo," she told the Court.
In cross-examination by Mr. Rendall, witness said she was well- treated by the man and his wife in a manner which could be described
Cross-examined by Mr. Rendall, witness said her parents were alive where they were now her em- ployers might know. She was sold as a mui-tsai at the age of 11.183 "Half mui-tsai and half There could be no mistake as to her daughter". She was put to sweep- position in the new home-hering the floor, and, now and then, to mother, before handing her over to massage her mistress. Ng. Pui-chi, having told her that she was to be a mui-isai,
The giri Kwok Siu-lan formerly a fellow mui-tsa; in the same household. She was now a sly prostitute, having been sold to Lau Sze-koo by her employers in a transaction at which witness was present. While the two women discussed the business, Ng Pul-chi was making out a deed on a red piece of paper.
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Mr. Hin-shing Lo suggested that witness had trumped up a false charge against his client, Lau Sze- fkoo, who, he claimed, had an honest occupation. He suggested that witness might have put up the pre- sent story after contact with some other person, man or woman.
Witness repudiated the sugges- tion. She said that when it came to her turn to be sold that Sunday, a procuress had been previously in- vited to the house,
Kwok Siu-lan, who next gave evi- dence, testified with regard to her present occupation. She came to Hongkong on March 16th, 1928,
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dresser.
In reply to another question, wit- ness said that at the time of her purchase by Lau Sze-kco, she was called out of the kitchen to witness the transaction and the money being handed over by Lau Sze-koo to the married couple.
The case
was adjourned until Thursday afternoon.
A Womon Sentenced.
Sentence of four months' im- prisonment was imposed on a Chi- nese woman who was convicted
by Mr: Whyte Smith yesterday of a charge of being concerned in taking a girl. to. Malaya for the purposes of prostitution. It will be recalled that another w.mha.j who was arrested in November last year, received six months' for the same offence,
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