CO129-466 - Individuals - 1920 — Page 252

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Chinese woman was charged at the Magistracy on July 15th, 1920, by r. S‚B. McElderry of the Chinese Secretariat, with the 111-treating Fa servant girl, eight years of age,

Mr. F.E. Fash appeared for the defence,

prosecution alleged that the woman burnt the child all over the So with a lighted paper,

According to the medical evidence the scars might have been used by fire or by some corrosive acid,

Mr Nash submitted that the burns were caused as a result of me Jeyaa' fluid being used in the girl as she was suffering from "kin disease, Mr. Smith agreed that it was possible but said that

showed carelessness and neglect,

He fined the woman

50.

The Police pressed the charge as serieus, (Hong Kong Daily Press)

Statement by Miss Pitt, Church Missionary Society. Hong Kong.

March 8th, 1919.

I know more of the horrors of child adoption and selling ited in my paper, or wish to describe,

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I used to visit a little child seven years old, in he spital. unever its guardian came near it, it would shake, apparently with

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A Slave Dealer.

Another Pelice Court Case

(South China Morning Post)

chinese was charged before Mr. N.L. Smith with taking a girl te ugkok, against her will, for immoral purpose in June, 1919. .S.B. MeElderry of the Secretariat appeared for the prosecution M Mr. A.E. Hall for the defence.

Cross-examined by Nr. Hall, Mr. McElderry Bald defendant tald that two women were the traffickers, but the girl emphasised at it was the man whe kidknapped her who tesk her to Bangkok.

The girl said that in June she worked for a family at canten servant. A week after she had assumed werk her mistress tald that she intended to visit her husband who was a goldsmith in 2 Kong, and suggested that she should accompany her. She and her Stress put u at a boarding-house in Hong Kong, and one day she

her mistress receiving 300 from defendant,

In the afternoon her mistress disappeared and defendant teld ess that he had purchased her and would take her to Bangkok.

She remonstrated with him and he gave her a flogging, Mas eventually taken on beard the S.S. Chusang and imprisoned ith other girls in a cabin, Defendant was also on beard, ipit nov food till the ship arrived at Swater.

The case was adjourned.

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