The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-10-30

North China News.


North China News.
A remarkable case arising out of the
recognized trade in buying and selling
women among the Chinese came be
fore the Mixed Court January s. IL
seems that about three monttG ago an
old man, who is well known to the
police as earning his living by this
traffic, went TO a woman and asked
her if she would not like TO earn some
money by coolie work. The woman
had been living for years with a China.
man as his wife, though she was not
legally married to him, and they had
a child; but her reputed husband was
away from home, and she expressed
her willingness to 60 out and earn
money in the VIZ suggested to her.
The old man than told her that he had
a situation for her out in the country.
and she accord ngly went to q village,
TO the house of an old man of 6Oyears.
For two months according to her &C
count, she remained there doing the
work of a servant, but at the end oil
this time her aged employer wished to
establish more intimate relations. with
her. She repealed him, saying that
she was a married woman and had
simple come to earn money by coolie
work, but he replied that he had paid
500 for her and she was his property.
The woman than took the earliest OPP
portunity to ruu away back to the set.
Element, changing her house there in
order that she might not be traced.
However, the tlpaoa of the village,
who appears to have had a finger in
the sale of the woman. followed her TO
Shanghai and at length discovered her
whereabouts. He Sc zed her, took her
to the tipao of the district, and sold of
everything in her house, realizing $14.
locked up for thirteen days, when the
matter came to the knowledge of the
police, and she was released. On TIE
eth the Shanghai tipao, the village
tipao and the man who sold the wo.
man were all brought up at the Mixed
Court and charged with their respec.
tive shares in the transaction, the wo.
man appearing to prosecute accom-.
panied BY her reputed husband and
their child. Mr.. Giles, who was sit.
ting as Assessor, asked Inspector
Howard, who was conducting the case
for the police, whether he believed
that the reputed husband was privy to
the sale of his wife. Inspector How
ard said that he was inclined to think
that the husband did know of IL and
received part of the proceeds OF his
wife's sale. but he believed that the
woman herself was quite innocent in
the matter and really believed that
she was simply going out TO do coolie
work.
Ehe question was then raised as to
whether the reputed husband had not
a perfect right. in Chinese law. to sell
the woman, seeing that he was not
legally married to her; but il was
ruled that, as they had a child. he had
no right to sell her. The husband was
accordingly arrested on suspicion and
placed with the other prisoners, who
were remanded for the attendance OF
the woman's purchaser, who was the
real loser by the whole transaction,
having paid away $100 and got no re.
turn for it. As there was no doubt,
however, that the Shanghai tipao had
acted illegally in keeping the woman
locked mp in his house for thirteen
days, he was ordered to receive loo
blows ito begin with" and as this is
is not the first offense. Mr.. Huang in
tends to apply to the Tao-tal to have
his Office.