Norwich bulletin. [volume] (Norwich, Conn.) 1895-2011, 1909-07-24
Girls In
ChiIdren's S Court
MoY Yum roy AND CHIN Fling
roy. EACH IS YEARS. s
SLAVES IN NEW YORK CITY
Sold in China and Brought to This
Country, Where They Are Held by
Cruel, Hard Masters.

New York, July 2s.-Two round
checked little Chinese maids, their al
mond eyes very very wide, their
straight bangs brushed nat across their
foreheads. their black braids. laced
with scarlet ssix. hanging precisely
down the middle of their backs. stood
demurely before Justice Wyatt in chill
dren's court today and swore to a story
which leSt little sympathy in those who
heard them for the two elderly CeIes-
tial. merchants who reported their
children" missing to the police on last
Wednesday night.
Held Here as Slaves.
For both little girls, who can make
themselves understood In English
swore thatt they have no parents living
in America, and that they hace been
held here against their will as houses
hold slaves, harshly treated and forc-
ed to work long hours. They were
accompanied by an agent Of the Chill
dren's society. who had found them on
the day following their disappearance
from Chinatown at an East Side parish
house with Miss Mary 6. Bank. their
Sunday school teacher, whom they had
recently accompanied on a weeks out
ing to the country. To the superin-
sworn statement in part as follows,
which was read in court today:
Statement by Moy Yum Toy.
My name Is Moy Yum Toy. BY
Chinese reckoning ] am fifteen, by
American fourteen. My father died
when ] was very young, and my moth
er married again and left me alone
with my grandmother, who was very
poor. and I was sold to the wife OF Moy
Zoo Chai, and she brought me over here
to America about two years ago. and
have been with her ever since.
II have had to work very hard In the
house. making buttons and button loops
from early morning until late at night.
When take a rest I am scolded and
beaten. Whenever my mistress boy
called me to do certain things. and
when was nit a BILE to do Il fast enough
the boy would beat me. y.
Il do not want to say anything that
Is not true against them; they fed me
well But my mistress once told me:
If ] killed you they could only arrest
me-"
Chin Fling Toys story-soid for $500.
Chin Fling Toys narrative was sins
ilar. She was sold in China for $3.50,
she said. brought to this country and
sold again for $500 gold and has. been
with her present master ever since,
some nine months. making buttons and
button loops for the store. -
Some mornings" her statement
reads. II had TO get up at: Z o'clock and
sometimes work right on until o'clock
in the morning. i was not allowed to
go out.
IF l don't work all the time ] get
beaten. I had to do all the washing
sheets and all. The only teaching I
ever received was by Miss Banta, who
taught me for an hour or so every
Monday. -
II would rather die than go back 70
Mott street"
Rigid Investigation TO Follow.
Neither she nor her companion viii
have to. Pending full investigation Of
their tale they will be held by the
Childrens society. 80
Both little girls are about the same
age. Chin Fling Toy slightly the elder.
Their story has aroused talk OF another
rigid Investigation of Chinatown. which
has hardly settled down after the chaos
which followed the murder Of Elsie
Sigel An officer OF the Children's so~
ciety said the federal government
would be asked to look into what ape
pears to be actual slave traffic.
Police Watching Chinese Merchants.
Two we'll known Chinese merchants
who posed as parents Of the children
are under police surveillance. The
youth of the complainants. howevef
and the many contradictions which the
police find In investigating a Chinese
mystery take tinge of the seemingly
serious aspect Of the affair until the
whole matter has been sffted. M