Mixed Court Revelations.
The cases of kidnapping and trafticking in children which come frequently before the Mixed Court reveal an extraordinary state of affairs. Under the Chinese law parents are permitted to cell their children and this system lends itself to abuse in every possible way, especially in the forging of alleged documents of sale. Yesterday the story was told of a little girl kidnapped, while out shopping, and almost immediately sold for $55. She was sold to @ respectable famil who required a slave girl, but parently exhaustive inquiries were not made as to her home parentage. Of the three people concerned in the charge, one said that she got) only $1 out of the transaction, an-charge of five children, all of whom spoke different dialects. After questioning them he arrested the women. Their story at the Court was that two of the children had been given to them at Nanking and that they hed bought the other three. The case has been three times remanded to enable them to produce the documents of sale, but this had not been done up to yesterday. One of the children said she was a native of Zeechow and had peep kidnapped and sold in o lodging house at Nanking, afterwards re sold to one of the accused women, The other children were too young to be able to give any account of themselves.
The accused ware released, but de prived of the custody of the children, who were handed over to the matron of the Door of Hope.
HI blackmail.
Another feature of the traffic was revealed in the case of a hawker, charged with being concerned with three others not yet in custody in attempting to extort money by means of threats, The complainant said that some time ago a child was left in her charge by its parents. On Wednesday the accused and three other men called at her house and said that if $20 was not paid to them, they would charge her with kidnapping. She refused to give them any money and they created a disturbance. A Chinese constable came in and gr rested one of the men, the other three escaping.
The accused was sentenced to three months' imprisonment, an order being made that he is afterwards to be expelled
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