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Mr. Nesh submitted that the burns were Laused as a result of some Jeyes' fluid being used on the girl as she was suffering from a skin disease. Mr. Smith agreed that it was possible but said that it showed carelessness and neglect.
He fined the "omen $50.
The Police pressed the charge as serious. (Hong Korg Deily Press)
4. Statement by miss Pitt, Church Missionery Society. Hong Kong -
Merch Pth 1919.
I know more of the horrors of child adoption ard selling than I stated in my paper, or wish to describe.
1 user to visit a little child seven years old, in hospitel. Whenever its guerdien came near it, it would shake, apparently with fear. I asked the child who the women wes. At first it said it wes the mother, but later colled her its orner."
Another Police Court Case.
A Slere Lealer.
(Sruth Chine Morrin, Post).
5. A Chinese was charged before Mr. N. L. Smith with taking a girl to
Bangkok. ageinst ber vill, for immoral purpose in June 1919.
Mr. S. B. McElderry of the Secretariat appeared for the prosecution and Mr. A. E. Hall for the defence.
Cross-examined by Mr. Hall, Mr. McElderry said defendent told him that two women were the traffickers, but the girl emphasised that it was the men who kidnapped her who took her to Bengkok.
The girl said that in June she worked for a family et Cantor as servent. A week after she hac assumed work her mistress told her that she intended to visit her husband who was a goldsmith in Hon Korg, and sugested that she should accompany her. She and her mistress put up at a boarding-house in Hong Kong, and one day she saw her mistress receiving 330 from defendant.
In the afternoon her mistress disappeared and defendant told witness that he had purchased her and would take her to Bengkok.
She remonstrated with him and heave her a flogging. She was eventually taken on board the S. S. Chuseng end imprisoned with other girls in a cebin. Defendant was also on board. She got no food till the ship arrived at Swatow.
The case was adjourned.
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