A.wretched-looking native was charged with stealing s jinrikeha. "It was stated that early on the morning of Thursday, he was seea by man sitting ina teashop in the Navkiog road, wheeling the vehicle towards the Malog without alight. This aroused his suspicion and he followed prisoner to some distanc, past the Bubbling Well, then saw him take the vehicle into a field, and begin breaking up. He then interfered, tied the prisoners hands, put him in the vehicle, wheeled hin to the Louza Police station, and charged hin with the thett.—The prisoner's conduct Court was so peculiar, that the magistrate considered him insane, and ordered him tp be taken to his own district, Fahwa, about four miles from the Settlement, A Runaway Wife, hood of Sinza Village, appeared. before the An agricultural couple, from the neighbour.
Court this morning to have their matrimonial differences settled. The husband is of fix mature age of 16 years, the wife being four years older. They were betrothed who much younger, and had been married in dis form a year ago. But both betrothal and marriage seem to have been distasteful Clarinda, and also to her "second" mother; and a few weeks ago, a stalwart mafoo in the employ of a foreiga gentleman professed affection for the fair one, and succeeded la. ducing her second mother to overlook the fact of the marriage, and sell her to him forthe munificent sum of $30. 'The sale and trans. for were completed, and the purchase was duly conveyed by the mafoo to his secret hay-loft but alas! they were soon broken in upon by the bereaved husband, who no sooner discovered his loss, than, in' company with his father, he left' his plough, and assumed for th nonce the rule of a private detective After a day or so's hunt, they were guided either by fortune or a betrayer to the place of Clarinda's concealment, and in the absence of her lover she was taken back to the home of her childhood. On Wednesday night, however, she again gave her busbied the slip, and mounting a wheelbarrow, wat hastening to the arma of hier mafoo, whens Policeman, who knew of the failure of the former transaction, met her, and asked her For husband, She answered in the afinar lainly if she was once more running from
tive, and was of course taken to the Police Station, and the husband sent for. He now insisted on her being handed over to the stern measure of Chinese law regarding faith-Jess wives. On being questioned by Hsieh as to her motives, she told a pitiful story of how her boy-husband made her work hard la the fields, but did not give her enough to ah, and that he at times beat h was, however, no party to th with the mafoo, but her "second" mother, Pitying, her sad' state, made, the berg er, in the hope of ensuring her more happiness. On her return home, after her dis covery by her husband, ho treated as badly as before, and as the mafoo did not beat her but treated her kindly, she mate up her mind to goto him again.—Hsieh seemed struck with the artless statement, of which the above isthe substance, and said, before deciding the he must have the "second" mother befor him, who, it seemed to him, had been guilty according' to Chinese law,' of the offence of kidnapping, by arranging the sale of the wile to the mafoo." The wife. was accordita remitted to the custody of her husband a his father, and they were ordered to bring lier up again in company with the sccoul mother.—The offence both of the wifeaul her mother-in-law is a grave one, Chinese criminal law, and it is impossible to say what punishment awaits both women, if the boy-husband insists on the law taking its course, Russell v. Wei-yuenrchdng.
To the Editor of the Norrs-Ouma Dany News, Dear Str,—Looking over the, rope your yesterday morning's issue, I observe that You failed in the following, viz I decided the case amicably, for Tls. 1.23 but as he (Rosales) requested my permis! to appeal against Way Yuen Ching, that.ay authority is not competent eneush settle his demand against the Chivaman, would not explain his claim to mel reserved my judgment.
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