Court Magistrate Koh, continued the trial Sung, who is acting for the Frevel Mixed of the case of a woman named Chang Luh-shi who had left the house of her husband, Chang A-hina, on the ground of ill-treat™ ment by the husband's mother, had taken refuge in her own mother's house, and had been removed from there and temporarily consigned to the care of a tang, or "home."
Mr. Sung repaired to the French Police Station in the French Settlement, (where the Mixed Court is held), to hear the On the detective Wang' Yung-pei stating that the woman's mother, Lub Tsien-shi, was in attendance, the official ordered her to be brought up, and said: " Your daughter's defection is due to your having neglected to train hee up properly." Luh Tsien {Thad no further control over her."
replied." When ale had once Left mo, oficial said: Yes, but when she ran buck to your house, why did you keep. her there?" She replied, "I "knew nothing about it." "I think," said the official, "that she must have bad sume private love affair before she was given in marriage, What man used to come and go, and falke to her?" "There was no one," replied the mother: "my daughter ran away, deciuso her life was made too bitter for her to endure." Then said the offcial: "If your daughter was unwilling to yo back with her husband, you might have kept her long enough to impress on her the duty of returning to him; but as you are inclined to keep your daughter with you, a runaway wife, not only shall you not dose, but you shall never be allowed to speak to her again."
Luh Ts'ien-shi then begged that her daughter might be sent back to the tang, home, The Magistrate, infuriated, said "Your daughter has become Chang's wife, and must be with him until she dies. Whom do you think of marrying her to now, that you will have it that she be sent back to the tang? Such a request is stupid and indecorous." With that he shouted an order that the mother should be slapped upon the mouth, The woman prostrated herself and begged for mercy, and the oficial ordered that her daughter Chang-Luh-shi, be now brought in, and said "You are now' Chang's wife, and west remain 60 till you die. Your begging to be sent back to the Gang shows your mind. is set on another mai, your paramour; he must be found and punished too."
The young woman said, "At my mother-in-law's house, they want to hang chains round ly neck and put me to death; it is for this that Tam afraid to return there, I pray again that I may be sent to the tang." "You are now one of Chang's people," replied the official, and as Chan, and his father have applied for your removal from the tung, you cannot go back there again, Your defection is caused by your having gone to your mother's house. Henceforth you two shall not be allowed to see each other, and if your mother goes to your mother-in-law's house to enquire about you, our mother-in-law will complain to ime, Now will you yo back to Chang's house or no?" "If you beat me to death," said the roman, *T will not wicked went," and ordered ber ne Magistrate said, "Truly you are a
beaten twenty blows on the mouth, After this he asked her again if she would return or nut; she said "I will not
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