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from Aberdeen Street, The wonan now here, LAU-A-YEE, is that woman. I took her back to the house, and gave her in charge of a Lokong. The people on the ground floor called to me and told me that some people had fallen into the cookhouse. I went into the cookhouse, and saw the deceas(1 lying on the granite on her face, with her head close to an earthen-ware chatty, which I pointed out, and the bundle of clothing with a Chinese rule lying on the top of her head, or on the back of her neck. Close beside her was another woman lying on the other side of the chatty with her feet against the wall and her head out towards the cookhouse door. I had a Chinese candle. I took up the bundle of clothes off deceased's head, and turned her on her back, and there were no signs of life apparent. The other woman was bleeding from the face, and her face and neck were covered with blood. She was moving as if in great pain. I sent for the ambulances at once, and by this time the whole street was aroused. Dr. GOMES lives close by and he came to the place. I asked him to look at the deceased and he did so and said she was dend. When the ambulances came I removed the women to the Civil Hospital.
The deceased was called A-Su, I believe. I cannot find out anything more about her than that she has been in the house two or three days.
The woman who is now in Hospital is called TAI-YAU, and was fined in November last for keeping an unlicensed brothel.
The woman whom I took to the Station is called LAU-A-YEE. She rents the upper floor. The deceased is a servant-woman in the house.
There were two women besides the three referred to in the house. They are servant-women, They are here now.
LAU-A-YEE is in custody charged before the Magistrate as the keeper of an unlicensed brothel, and the case is postponed till the 19th.
When I went up the stairs and climbed over the folding doors I did not call out Police. I have been on the roof of many Chinese houses since I became Inspector of Brothels. I have never seen any roof, but that of 42 and that of 44, which had not a protection wall round the smoke-hole or area. I only saw one man in the house, the one who opened the trap door. His name is NG-A-KAN. He is the informer, and was one of the men who got the notes to get evidence. I only knew from the informer that women had run up and I wanted to secure them.
I had no knowledge of the existence of such a hole being unprotected. I believe the women did not know of the existence of the hole, and simply ran there in their endeavours to escape.
Both Inspector WHITEHEAD and myself had suspicions on the house No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, for months. We had no suspicions on No. 42, Peel Street, until last night at midnight. I was then told something by the Interpreter and in consequence went.
Our instructions to the Interpreter last night were to send to a house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, and if the informers could not gain admission, then to try and find some other place. We did not give any special instructions to go to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, last night.
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NG-A-KAN declared, states:-I am a carpenter living at D'Aguilar Street. I am a friend of CHENG-A-YU, the Interpreter to the Inspector of Brothels. He gave me seven dollars yesterday about 6 o'clock. He told me that the Inspectors wanted to get some cases, and told me to make inquiry about unlicensed brothels. I went with a friend surnamed CHENG last night, but we could not find any in Queen's Road Central. We went into a house in Queen's Road Central, over a district watchman's house. CHENG-A-Yu sent us there. The people said it was a family house. I separated from CHENG and I searched about. I intended to give back the money. I met two friends MAN-A-ON
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and Ló-A-MAN, and they asked me to go to Lyndhurst Terrace. We went to a house to the first floor about 9 o'clock. Ló-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had been there before. When I got into the house, I only saw three women there. One of the women only was a prostitute. I did not sleep with any woman at No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace. There was a girl brought to the house. A man named A-NAM brought her. I did not have anything to do with the girl. I engaged the girl at Lyndhurst Terrace and went with her to Peel Street, No. 42. That was about 1 o'clock. Before the Inspectors came, had left Lyndhurst Terrace. The girl who is in Hospital is the one I had engaged. A-NAM came with me to the house in Peel Street. He said he was going to sleep there, but he was not going to sleep with a girl. I had not paid the girl, whom I had engaged, anything. I opened the trap door, and let the Inspector into the floor. The women kneeled before me and said not to do anything, as the Inspector was coming. The deceased and TAI-YAU kneeled before me. They were much frightened. Ta-YAU said "I was fined $100 before. I sold my son to pay the fine, and you must not say anything now.' That was before I opened the door. The woman now present, LAU-A-YEE, was there. She ran with the others up the stairs. I had never been in the house before. I had had some drink. I was not quite drunk, but I was under the influence of drink.
CHENG-KAN-TSAI paid for the supper. He got money from CHENG-A-Yü. dollars to CHENG-A-YÜ,
At 7 P.M., adjourned till 4 o'clock P.M., on the 18th, at Magistracy.
I returned my seven
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J. RUSSELL,
Coroner.
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18th October, 1877.
Inquiry resumed at the Magistracy, at 4 o'clock.-Jurors present.
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CHENG-KAN-TSAI, declared, states:--I am a painter living at Jervois Street. On the evening of the 16th instant, between 6 and 7 o'clock, I was walking with a man named NG-A-KAN, and went to CHENG-A-Yu's place, 31, Caine Road. CHENG-A-Yu asked me to get some cases for him, to find unlicensed brothels for him. We were to go and try a house in Queen's Road. We got money from CHENG-A-Yü. I got $3 and NG-A-KAN got $7. We went to the house in Queen's Road over the watchman's, and went upstairs. We had no previous knowledge of the women there. We stayed for five minutes. We saw no men there, We proposed to them thus Have you got any women who have got time They said-"No can, you can go,” We saw three to get any supper, and we will stop here all night."
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We then separated. I was walking in Queen's Road, I met a friend called MAN-A-ON. I asked him where he was going to? He said to Singapore. I said as you are going to Singapore, you ought to give me an invite to spend a night at a brothel. He said-Yes, go on, let us go to a sly brothel.' He had a friend with him. His name I learned to be Ló-A-MAN. They took me to an Opium shop, where we fell in with a man called A-NAM. We stayed a short time there, and A-NAM took us to a I do not know the number. When we went up, I saw three house at Lyndhurst Terrace, first floor. women there. I proposed that we should stay there and have supper, and afterwards have girls there. There was one man there. One of the women, named SAI-KAM, told me that there was only one girl there, herself. I said get two more, and a servant was despatched to get two girls. A-NAM was only a pimp to find us the girls. This occurred about eight o'clock. Two girls came about quarter-past-
got gave a dollar to A-NAM to buy supper. That was one of the dollars that I eight o'clock. I CHENG-Yu. The girls came, but only stayed a few minutes, one minute. They promised to stay, went away, but did not return. A-NAM himself went out to get two girls, and fetched two at after eleven o'clock, about quarter-past-eleven o'clock. One called herself CHAU-KIN, and the other called herself A-Só. Three women had supper. We had supper as soon as they
came. We had for supper, fowls, drank three or four cups. stuffed pig's feet, sausages, eggs, and about six taels of samshü.
A-NAM remained there, and had supper. MAN-A-ON went and fetched NG-A-KAN about nine o'clock. Ló-A-MAN said that No-A-KAN might have his girl. We told MAN-A-ON and Ló-A-MAN, that we were going to have thein arrested, and MAN-A-ON and Ló-A-MAN said they did not want to have anything to do with it. They said they had no time to be witnesses. NG-A-KAN promised to pay for the women for them. I stayed at A-NAM Lyndhurst Terrace with the woman who was in the house. I had not paid her any money.
I was in her room when told me that I should pay the girl two dollars. She agreed to sleep with me.
A-Yü told me that when I went to bed I should the Inspectors came. I had not paid any money.
pay her.
CHENG-A-Yil never asked me to do any work of this kind before for him, nor did I ever do it. NG-A-KAN was not there when the Inspector came. He left to go to Peel Street with a girl. He She went with a went with A-Só. A-NAM went with him. CHAU-KIN went away before A-KAN. servant woman. MAN-A-ON told NG-KAN to pay her, but NG-KAN did not.
MAN-A-ON and Ló-A-MAN went away together about half-past-twelve o'clock, when I paid the money for the supper. I told MAN-A-ON to go and tell CHENG-A-Yu.
To the foreman:-My pay as a painter was 1 mace and 4 candareens per day. I am out of I have been out of employ for a year now. I sometimes stop here, and sometimes go employ now.
Query.You spent $1, what did you do with the others? elsewhere. I live on my friends. Answer.-I gave back the $2 to CHENG-A-Yu. I did not expect to get any money from CHENG-A-Yü. He is a friend of mine. I live in the WING SHING CHEUNG shop, Jervois Street.
To the Coroner:---I opened the door and let the Inspector in. She (the girl in No. 9, Lyndhurst I said "Nothing, don't be afraid." She Terrace) was very frightened and asked-" What is that?" was afraid.
She ran into a front room, and concealed herself under a bed. I pointed her out to the Inspector. The Inspector could not see me in the girl's room, because I opened the door.
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NG-A-KAN recalled, and further examined, states:-We had about 18 taels of samshi. I had the most to drink, i.e., more than the others. The supper consisted of fowls, sausages, duck, pig's tripe, pig's feet, salt eggs, and plums.
A-NAM is not here. I don't know where he is. I had nothing to drink when I went to Peel Street. I have been employed by CHENG-A-Yü in the business before. I have discovered three places before. One last year, and two this year. I was a witness against TAI-YAU before. I did not A-NAM ran out when recognize the girl again. She called herself A-Só. She did not recognize me.
the Inspector came. He knew that my being there was a plant. He ran when the Inspector came. He ran away with the woman to the roof. I have paid back the money, seven dollars, to CHENG-A-YU. I got no pay last year, but this year I got $2, one on each occasion before as pay.
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