A brothel-keeper was charged with assaulting and beating a girl, aged 18 years, at 475, Kwangse Road, at 2 a.m. on the 24th instant.
The girl said that her mistress beat her with an opium pipe because she was too ill to carry out the duties that her mistress required of he The complainant's arms were black, as a result of the beating she had received.
The defendant was sentenced to one month'sjimprisonment and 200 blows on the hands.
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