The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1900-11-27

would tell the truth Sedteu W ehS oiS
wicker chair her tininess was maae
more apparent. Though she says she
is - years old, she is not bigger than
the ordinary girl of and the bo1y is
thin and her face sad in expression.
In answer to many questions put by |
limited States Attorney Baird, she sa'u |
that she was named in China, SUI Ma |
Bwai. but was called All Ho here. She
had come to Hawaii two years ago. A
man named Chun So brought her
here. She had not known Chun SO IN
China and he was dead now
She was living with her father ana
roother, her little brother and older SIS
ter in an humble home when this man
Chun So appeared on the scene and
bought her from her mother. What
the price paid for her was she did not
know.
my mother is poor" said All Flo,
when asked why she was bartered to a
stranger.
| She said that she was told that Lun
Kau had written from Honolulu to
Chun So to bring him a female slave
| and she parted with her parents, kissed
her little brother and embraced her
sister for the last time and then de-
parted for the foreign land.
Here she was delivered over to Lun
Kau by Chun So and with the former
she lived a year as slave. When
I.un Kau went to China, she said, she
was sold to Ng Mon Wars wife. Never
before had she seen Ng Mon War or his
wife till the day they came to Lun
Klaus and took her away.
All Keauo had informed her that she
had bought her and Lun Klaus wife
said so also. Mr.. Baird brought out
the foregoing through the interpreter
by much questioning.
Then he asked her, do You want to
go back to live with Mon War and his
wife?''
No" said All Ho, as she tried to
hide from the angry eyes of her for
liner master and mistress. Il was forced
to work all the time. 1 had the cook
ing, washing, ironing, the scrubbing OF
the floors, the care of the baby and
other things"
Did you do this work voluntarily OF
, involuntarily?
IT was ordered every day." was the
I child's reply.
i Asked why, she looked surprised.
I why" she replied, Il was bought.
e She could not explain what the wore
s slave meant. All she knew in that oil
q ERECTION was that she had been bough
by Ng Mon War and his wife.
"Ah Keauo often said to me that sh'
owned me- She said she had bough
0 me to work. All Keauo said her none.
d had been paid for me.
= sAb KeauO whipped most. some
n times Ng Mon War beat me. All keau
q used a piece of firewood. sometime
= they told me to do some kind OF Wori
e I could not. and then 1 was beaten
a She struck me on the hands, on tn
& feet, on the head and all over. Some
times she stripped me naked and bea
c me with the log of wood. L bled some
a times. I had to carry the child on m
back and do all the work"
"a All Ho was never permitted TO
[e out of the yard. For her there wer
+ no minutes of play or relaxation. Sh
10 had never been to school in her life
: time All her hours were filled wit
: ldrudgery and blows. Generally she al
- the leavings of the pair of brutes VIII
L. abused her. No children were above
to come to talk to her. 1t was wor
and work from daybreak till sleep &
night gave her surcease from misery.
This had gone on for six months.
Ho talked to the interpreter in 10
. voice Now and again she whispere
her answers. Only few feet ava
we're the ugly Ng Mon War and h
cruel wife, and little All Ho was NJ
sure she might not have to go bac
to them again.
Attorney Neumann for the prisoner
cross-examined the child. He tried
. be gruff and brighten her, but he ev
IDENTIFY felt small interest in his job. t
brought out more plainly the repeate
: statements of the wife, All Keauo, tn;
she owned All Ho.
, In reply to one of Mr. Neumann
: questions, All Ho said, "Ah Keauo sa
two or three times that she had bougl
me; that she had bought me to VOL
! and NOT TO EAT"
. Mrs. Margaret West was the one wi
: ness outside of the victim, called MI
West said she lived at the corner
= Nuuanu avenue and Vineyard stree
Next door lived Ng Mon War. MI
West had never seen the man beat II
child, but had "times without numbel
2 been compelled to see the woman a
sault the little one. Mrs. West sai'
= ''Ah Keauo used stick Of cordwood
beat All Ho. 1 demonstrated with h
, many times. She called me names
l her own language, and ordered Il
! child to shut up Once, when 1 cried
her that / would call the police 81
4 replied, What is this to you? She
: mine"
:. When Mrs West had finished, Alto
e ney Neumann asked that the prisone
: be discharged. There has been
case against them proven" said N
rn Neumann.
nd United States Commissioner Robins,
:. looked grave.
- In my opinion he said, 1.-The lit
iei girls testimony proves her to ha
as been treated as a slave by Ng M
ed War and his wife. I will bind DO
10. of them over to answer before the ne
,rt federal grand jury, or at the spri
term of the United States Distr
Court"
ted The hail was fixed at 50 zoo each T,
the tie All Ho showed to those about h
nst her right hand, fearfully bruised, a
a to all appearance, with the thur