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GITALRSA SBITELOGG
ZARAVO TURU,
er Appleton,
353
August 29th, 1917.
I write this letter under a sense of compulsion and
ve you carte blanche to publish it, if you think the cause
which I write will be served by so doing.
A case has recently been tried in the courts here.
w as the 'Slave cage". A Kidnapping case was before the ige and from all accounta was a very had case, but the Brocate for the defence, raised the point of law, "that the
ls could not be taken from the lawful custody of the women
laying them, because the girls têre slaves and therefore ld not be in their lawful custody,"
It transpired in the evidence that one of the girls had en sold to the women by her elder brother for "one hundred
blars" The Judge asked the Slave Oxner whether it was true
The Slave Owner answered (re
at the girl was her slave.
dence). "I don't know what you mean by slave. Once she is
bid to me she is my property." In further evidence the
love Owner said, "Of course I pay her no wages. Her elder
In answer to
ther took over one hundred dollars for me!
fending counsel, the slave owner further said: "I could sell
again if I wished, but I want to keep her as my servant."
The other case was exactly the same in all details except at the little slave had been sold by her father to the slave ner for one hundred and forty-six dollars.