Two unemployed natives were charged with being concerned together in decoy- P&D ing woman from Bevan Road to a lodging-house in the French Concession, and detaining her there for three days, and afterwards selling hep to the prot prietor of a house of ill fame on the 4th instant.—Inspector Matheson said the woman had apparently run away from her husband in the country, and was met by one of the prisoners in Honan Road. The man induced her to go with him to the French Concession by telling her he could find her employment there as an arrish. Hoafterwards sold her to the keeper of the house of ill fame for the sum of $10 and the second prisoner went security for him, vouching that the woman was hie wife.—The first prisoner was sentenced to 500 blows and two years imprisonment, the second prisoner to 500 blows and six months' imprisonment, and the woman was ordered to be kept at the Sinza Refuge until she could be restored to her husband, Shanghai, 16th May Before Mr. Tu Tso-tim (Magistrate) and Mr. B, Twraan (British Asvessor).
Horxrss, Doxw xp Ca. " Cuo Pre-can, This was an action brought by the plaintiffs to recover from the defendant, who inthe proprietor of the China Paper Mill Company, the sum of Tls. 3,420, the proportion of commission due' by' the defendant to the plaintiff ea the sale Price of the plant premiven, ete, of the inn
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