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To a Juror:-I was formerly employed with A-Hó, HIP SHING shop. I left there more than a month ago.
I am looking for employment.
I returned the money at three o'clock in the morning When did you return the seven dollars? I could get $5 a month, and my food for working at my trade.
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CHENG-A-Yü, declared, states:-1 am Interpreter to the Inspectors of Brothels. I am paid $15, and have free quarters. I have been employed since the 26th June, 1876.
We were
On the evening of the 16th instant, I gave seven dollars to the last witness, and three to KAN-TSAI. I told them to go to the house No. 258, Queen's Road Central, top-floor. That is the district watch- man's house. I had suspected that it was a secret brothel. The Inspector told me that it was suspected. Inspector LEE had given me the notes between six and seven o'clock. I watched. The men came and said they could not do anything as it was a family house. NG-A-KAN went away. KAN-TSAI and myself met MAN-A-ON and Ló-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON said he had a few Hongkong paper dollars, which were no use to him, and he said--"Let us go and drink the dollars." He suid this to me. always good friends. He did not show them. He put his hand in his purse, but he did not show then. I did not say anything, but we adjourned to an Opium shop, not a smoking place. I had been waiting there, while the two men were in the house in Queen's Road, and we went back. I knew Ló-A-MAN for some time. A man named A-LING who came out from a room said---“ Do you want to go to drink? If you do I'll take you." We were talking in the shop. CHENG-KAN-TSAI and Ló-A-MAN, and MAN-A-ON and A-LING went away together. KAN-TSAI said I'll invite you." I said, if you get a case let me know. They went away. I went to the painter shop, Wellington Street, waiting, and I told KAN-TSAI where I would be found, and to let A-Ox and A-MAN know what was intended to be done. A-Ox came and told me about the case, but he said he would not give evidence as he was going away. A-KAN then happened to come, and I told him to go to the place. I then went and told Inspector LEE, and at 12.80, I went to Lyndhurst Terrace with the Inspector. Lo-A-MAN and MAN-A-ON had given me the number of the house. KAN-TSAI opened the door. We arrested two women and a man. The man and women are now in Gaol on remand. Inspector WHITEHEAD took them to the Station. Inspector LEE, KAN-TSAI, and myself went to Peel Street. We did not know what house to go to, and the man Kan-Tsai called A-KAN. Somebody spoke from a house in Peel Street, and said he is at the opposite honse. A woman said-"I saw somebody go into 42, pointing to 42. We called at the house 12, A-KAN, A-KAN.'" The Inspector then knocked the door with a stick. No answer. A woman looked out from 1st floor. The Inspector told her to open the street door. She came and opened. We went up the stairs. We had not yet heard A-KAN's voice, and did not know he was there, further than what we had learned on the street from the woman of the opposite house. The folding doors on the stairs which were pointed out to the Jury, were closed and fastened. The Inspector climbed over the barrier, and opened it for me. We went up. I called out A-KAN. KAN-Tsar followed us. stopped at the stair case. A-KAN opened the trap door. Inspector LEE and KAN-TSAI went up. A-KAN pointed his finger up towards the roof, and I remained on the stairs. I don't know what happened. KAN-TSAI has returned me $2. A-KAN gave me back $7. This was about two o'clock.
never employed KAN-TSA1 before. I have employed A-KAN before.
The Registrar
To the Jurors: The informers get one dollar reward, when they get a case. General pays the money. I am employed by the Registrar General's department,
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By the Coroner, at the suggestion of Inspector Len:-When we went No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace, was any remark made by KAN-Tsai in reference to the house of a black-eyed womun? Yes: he said, A-KAN, I believe, has gone to the house of black-eyed SAM. He said one of the girls belonged to black-eyed SAM's house. RAN-TSAI went to the house of the "black-eyed" woman first.
The black-eyed woman said that the man had gone to the house which she pointed out.
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CHAN-A-Sz, declared, states:-I am a widow and live at Canton. I came down here on the 15th instant, and went to visit the servant who lives at 42, Peel Street, called CHAN-A-YEE, We were old friends, and I stayed there, as I wanted to get some employment. On the night I came, there were the mistress of the house, who is here--LAU-A-YEE-my friend CHAN-A-YEE and myself in the front of the house. The deceased, who was a servant, was called A-Só, but I don't know her surname, and the woman who is in Hospital occupied the second room. Nobody occupied the third room. CHAN-A-YEE slept in the passage. There were no men in the house. On the night of Tuesday about twelve o'clock, the mistress got up to worship. I heard her, and very soon I heard a great noise. I was so frightened that I did not come out of the room. I was standing with A-YEE. Afterwards I saw the Inspector in the house. I was taken into custody with my friend, the servant A-YEE. She is servant to the mistress LAU-A-YEE.
Her CHAN~ + A-Sz. Mark.
moon.
room.
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CHAN-A-LOK declared, states: I am a servant woman to LAU-A-YEE of 42, Peel Street. The last witness calls me A-YEE. I was engaged on the 28th day of 8th moon. To-day is the 12th of 9th I had a child of the mistress with me in the passage on the night of the 16th. I did not see T-YAU go out. I saw TAI-YAU come in with a man about twelve o'clock. I only saw one man. I did not see who shut the door. TAI-YAU had a servant woman of her own. She slept in the after- We called her A-Só. She is now deceased. LAU-A-YEE was worshipping in the front room at that time. I did not see who opened to let the Inspector into the house. I saw my mistress and TAI-YAU and A-Só run through the kitchen. I did not see where they went. I lay still. I was frightened. I knew they were coming to arrest somebody. I did not see anybody praying to a man not to tell the Inspector. I did not hear TAI-YAU say-"I was fined $100 before, and I had to sell my son to pay the fine." Some time afterwards I was arrested and taken to the Station, and kept there all night. We were detained all day yesterday till after the inquest. The deceased was about 40 of age, I believe.
Her CHAN-+ A-LOR. Mark.
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Adjourned at 7 P.M. till 19th at 4 P.M. at Magistracy. Jurors put under the usual recognizances.
J. RUSSELL,
19th October, 1877.
Coroner.
Inquiry resumed at Magistracy this day at 4 o'clock. Jurors answer their names. LEUNG-A-YUNG declared, states:-I am a coolie employed at collecting rubbish at Lap-sap-wán.
I have heard that the deceased was my mother. I identify some of the things shewn me as the property of my mother. I recognize the purse, the measuring rule, and some of the clothing. My mother was employed as a servant somewhere in Ching-wan. She was employed in a brothel in Hollywood Road last year.
I last saw her about twenty-four days ago. I saw her in my house at Tai-ping-shán. I have a family house in that locality. My mother's name was FUNG-A-Sz. She was fifty-seven years of age.
I have learned from a woinan who knew my mother that she is dead.
His LEUNG- + A-Yung.
Mark.
JOHN LEE further examined, states:-The bundle which I have now shewn to the last witness, is the same which I found lying on the head of the deceased. The purse was taken from her person at the Civil Hospital.
The standing orders I referred to were those which I learned from Inspector PETERSON, who was then Chief Inspector of Brothels.
The standing order was that any house which I suspected to be an unlicensed brothel, if I could get any man to go in and stop with the women, or if I went myself, to take the women into custody. At that time the cases were tried by the Registrar General. That has been the course of procedure. Soon after I joined, I recollect a case where I got evidence of the keeping of an unlicensed brothel at West Point, and I took the persons before the Registrar General, and the persons accused fetched a door to the office, and said we had broken it in. I recollect Mr. SMITII, who was then at the Registrar General's Office, said we were not to break, but simply enter.
Has it not been the custom to report to the Registrar General, when you had reason to suspect a house being an unlicensed brothel, and obtain his authority to enter? Answer. It has not been so; but, in cases where we have failed to get men to stop so as to obtain evidence, and where a suspicion still existed, then we would report to the Registrar General. In that case, the Registrar General would summon the persons before him and investigate.
Has there been any change in the procedure since the Magistrates' Court was made the tribunal under the "Contagious Diseases Ordinance," instead of the Registrar General's Office? Answer.-No, there has not been.
To a Juror:---Has there been any order given by the Registrar General to employ the class of men like A-KAN and KAN-TSAI, and other men? There has been an order to get evidence, and it is known
to the Department, because the Registrar General signs the bill which is paid from the secret service fund. I had no instructions in reference to No. 9, Lyndhurst Terrace.
Answer.--
To Mr. SMITH, Juror:— In previous cases have you had to chase the people on the roof? Yes; it is a common occurrence for the women to run to the roof. I have pursued thein over as many as twenty houses,
In the course of the proceedings before the Registrar General or the Magistrates, I presume it would transpire whether the pursuit of women on the roof had taken place? Yes, it would. Have you ever had your attention called to the fact that such pursuit was improper or illegal? Answer.---I have not.
In a case tried on the 3rd November last, a woman got out of the front window of a house, and ran along the ledge and got away. That came out in evidence at the Police Court.
JOHN LEE.
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