The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-27
LAW HOLDS
THIS PAIR
Ng Mon War and Wife
Must Stand Trial.
LITTLE All HOS TORTURERS
Commissioner Robinson Hears Evil
dence as To Keeping Her
in Slavery.

his wife were put under bonds to APP
pear before the United States Court or
Grand Jury and answer to the charge
| of holding in slavery little All Ho,
lotherwise named Sui Ma Kwai.
The details of the story of the bru-
tally of Ng Mon War and his wife to
the unfortunate child have been full
told in the Advertiser. The sworn evil
dence yesterday bore out fully the al
Legations made against the couple.
J. 1t was shown that the pair had mis-
used the girl, had overworked and un-
derfed her. had beaten her cruelty and
had treated her daily as a chattel-a
thing without feelings and without
rights.
Some days ago the Honolulu Protec-
tive Society was organized by forty
representative citizens of this city. Its
objects were stated to be the securing
of laws for the moral welfare of Ho-
, nolulu the protection of children and
, the furthering of the general good OF
! the community.
Before the newly-organized society
Rev. William Kincaid, pastor of the
Central Union church, brought the case
of All Ho.
He said that it had been told him
a Chinese child was held in slavery by
a Chinese family living on Nuuanu
avenue near Vineyard street and that
she was being beaten and otherwise
} abused Mr.. Kincaid thought that this
} was an excellent opportunity for the
\ society to initiate it's work. A COM
! lmittee was appointed to look into the
\ matter ard within a few hours All Ho
4 II had been rescued from the den and
4 taken to a comfortable home in Ka-
4 lwaiahao Seminary. She was found to
be covered with bruises and with one
of her hands either sprained or the
bones broken from the blows of a
bludgeon welded by the wife of Nc
Mon War.
United States Attorney Baird was
quick to act in the matter. He read
y the story in the Advertiser and
= straightway sought his authorities. He
. discovered in the United States stat
= utes a well-defined law forbidding the
. holding in slavery of anyone and Mr.
Baird lost no time in filing a complaint
The following was the text of the com
plant:
The United States of America, Terri
tory of Hawaii, IS.
Before the United States Commission
for the District of Hawaii.
The United States of America VS.. Ng
Mon War and All Ming.
On the 23d day of November A. D.
1900 in the District of the Territory of
Hawaii, before me, Commissioner of
the District Court of the United
States in and for the District of Ha-
wall, comes Daniel A. Ray, and upon
his oath complains and says that he
has just and reasonable grounds to
believe, and does verify believe, that
Ng Mon War and All Ming, late of
the said district, on or about the goth
day of November, A D. 1900, and in
the said district, unlawfully, knowing
] ly, wilfulIy and feloniousy did hold
to involuntary service one All Ho,
aged thirteen Q3) years, the said All
Ho being then and there a Chinese
person who had heretofore unlawful
ly, knowingly, wlfully and felonious-
ly been sold into condition of invol-
untary servitude by a person or per-
sons to complainant unknown, they,
the said Ng Mon War and All Ming.
then and there well knowing that the
said All Ho had been heretofore I'M
lawfully, knowingly, wilfully and fe-
loniously sold and held for involun-
tary servitude, contrary to the form
of the statute in such case made and
provided sand against the peace and
dignity of the United States.
Subscribed in my presence and sworn
to before me this 23rd day of Novem-
Der. A. D., 1900. w. ]. ROBINSON,
United States Commissioner of the
II District of the Territory of Ha-
IN wall.
w Immediately a warrant was swor
out for the arrest of Ng Mon War an
;. his wife and they were taken into Gus
tody. Later they were released undt
bonds of 800 each. The woman Wa
also arrested by the police and charge
with assault and battery on All H
Her case is to be heard in police cou
this morning.
Yesterday afternoon before Unite
States Commissioner Robinson in IL
Federal court room the case again
the man and his wife for making
slave of All Ho was heard. The hea
ing was set for 80 o'clock, but it w.
nearly an hour later when the case b
gan.
Ng Mon War and his wife were the
long before the time agreed on. T.
No. man, who is clerk in a law Office,
to- very unprepossessing in appearan
Of and has the reputation of being We
ais, cunning. 1t was he who led the fig
res against the Bow Wong Wui and he
bitterly hated by most of the SCI
respecting Chinese of Hawaii. Ng NJ
War wears the white mans clothes b
keeps his queue hidden under
American hat. All Ming or All Keal
3, n his wife, is young and not unhandso1
" from a Chinese standpoint. She W
born here, educated, it is said, at K
. waiahao Seminary and wears holol
She has a dissatisfied and cross loo
In the Federal court room besit
Ng Mon War, his wife, All Ho a
Commissioner Robinson were Unit
States Attorney Baird for the proseC
ct. ton, United States Marshal Ray, D,
uty Marshal Hendry, Paul Neuma
" counsel for the prisoners, Mrs. NJ
garet West, witness, and some lad
from Kewaiahao Seminary. One
these, Miss Alice Kong, was offe
20. as Chinese interpreter, but Attori
d. Neumann said he wanted none G
nected with that institution. So