The Honolulu republican. [volume] (Honolulu, T.H.) 1900-1902, 1900-11-30
STONY OF / I0uMY
Of 1 QUITE lDUlI CHILD
All no, THE CHINESE SLAVE. EN-.
JOYS HER SHARE OF THE
sREATH OF FREeDoM.
How Her Sad Plight Was Transform
ed Into Happy Environments Of
Good cheer-Psthe;5e Scene In
Colonel Rairu's Once.

VI the thousands OF people who En-
joyed the holiday yesterday in this
city there perhaps was not one who
had more perfect right and title to
breathe the air OF thankfulness than
little An Ho. the Chinese giri-chiid
who only this week escaped from the
terrible clutches of human slavery.
The child is now comfortably shell
tered among friends who will shield
her from all bodily harm and espe-
cially from the captivity of Ng Mon
War and All Keau. his wife. At the
kawaiahao seminary, where the slave
owning woman was herself educated
protection from that curse to human
liberty for which the. great Lincoln
sacrificed his life
Ii will be news to many readers
that since the days of the civil war,
when the negroes were given their
freedom and perpetuated by an iron
clad amendment of the American con-
stitution there is recorded but one
for the crime of holding
human slave IN the reports of the law
..braries of the country. That was
an Italian organ-grinder of New York
City who held a slave of his own ma
He was prosecuted under
a federal law that was especially en-
acted to reach Italian slave-owners
and incidentally it is the very law I'M
der which the prosecutors of little All
Ho in Honolulu are now under bond
of 81 500 each TO appear before the
next federal grand jury for the arch-
crime of holding a human being in in
voluntary servitude.
The members of the Protective
league of this city, under the guild
ance of the Rev. William NJ. kincaid,
were able to bring up this first case
in the brief existence of their society
and they naturally feel a certain par
ionable sense of qualification at such
signal success. Not being versed in
the law they went about II merely
with the hope of convicting the ORR
entail couple of assault aud battery for
the numerous beatings and cuffs and
Nuns uRCu SAlE
But at this juncture a new figure
on the scene. Colonel j. 9.
Baird, the United States attorney,
through the local press learned of the
case and he Immediately looked up
The federal law on the slave question
and took charge of the case much to
he surprise of the members of the
league and of the police department
who never thought OF seeking his aid.
Il is generally the custom with prose
cutting attorneys of various branches
If the state and national governments
% wait in their offices until conn.,
plants are made to them officially be-
ore proceeding IN matters of ordi-
lary crime. of course with the eXcep-
ion of murder, but that is not Colonel
3affd's style sHesseest-thesag aggressive
md has carried the object of the
eague much farther than any of its
members ever dreamed.
Colonel Baird first sent Deputy |
MARSHAL Hendry out to the seminary |
o get the little girls story. Later he |
vent himself. She at first hesitated |
o talk, claiming in her child-like |
but with a remarkable con- |
.eption OF this ms and outs of the law, |
hat if this case is lost she must go |
Jack to Ng Mon War and All Keau. |
yol. Baird managed to convince her |
hat no matter which way the trial |
nded in court she would never have |
o go back to those people. Then she |
old her story, which was afterwards |
epeated in court with such a telling |
fleet that the defendants attorney |
n a rigid cross-examination was only |
BILE to extract affirmative evidence |
nd excellent repartee.
After the trial in the company of |
Alice All Kong. Miss Paulding and |
ar. Hendry. All Ho was shown
through what to her were the great |
fiices of the executive building. Pass
ng through the door of the federal
ttorney's Office the twelve-year old
hild's eye frightened in manner
cry uncommon with her race and |
tretching out her hand she laid it On
he huge palm of Colonel Baird. The
of this scene made it
cry pathetic-a heather child un-
aught and not able to utter more
han few words of the English Ian
uage to do the act so gracefully.
Thanksgiving is not the only happy
ay for All Ho. She has enjoyed her
elf first rate the entire week. She is
aving a nice long holiday vacation. |
nd thanks to tue laws of an en-