CO129-188 - Governor Hennessy - 1880 [5-6] — Page 402

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and the keeper quite a public.

Character.

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The was kesh by a person

who allowed her, I am

credibly informid

$15 per month, on

the understanding.

that he was to whick at her keeping

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the brothel, in which she had invested a considerable amount of money. It is difficult to credit so infamous a story, of the breath of

which there can, however, be no

ssisted in her

doubt. She was a

vocation bey the second defendant an old brothel - keeper from Taipingshaw, who knew all the

Police, and reconnoitered customers,

giving alarmed when any suspicions person sought to gain entrance.

Her, as Resistant keeper, I fined $50

07 3 months.

The Keeper herself I fined $100,

and an

li

ams

imprisonment of one fortnight

Care-

I fixed the fine as high

as that, because I thought it would be paid by Eubscription. In fact, it was paid by the man who keeps her.

As I may say,

/

heaven and..

2arth were moved to get this bomand

because she was

ut of prison, "Superior class of offender ! and

because her customers had been

Mostly "Gentlemen", a point of I knew nothing in entering

Case.

I went to look for

blo

which

the

a

[' ༥-

I found

flagrantly, scandalous house, and

ter.

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