Mother Who Was Offered Her Own Daughter to Purchase by a Kidnapper On June 22, says the "Hongkong Daily Press," a Chinese women. residing in Shamshuipo, lost her little daughter, aged nine gears. A few days ago, a woman from one lof the Hakka villages in the Shamshuipo district, offered to sell her little girl for $150. This little'
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The story was unfolded at the /Kowloon Magistracy when a Hakka Jwoman was charged with kidnaping two little girls.
Defendant denied the charge of kidnapping, but admitted that she had harboured them. She said that she and her own daughter were in shop in Yaumati, when the iris came up and were given Isome cake.
They then went home ith her daughter, and were given some rice.
They were afterwards taken back to Yaumati and were told that they must try to find their ay home, but the same evening they again returned to her house.
The detective-sergeant in charge lof the case, stated that the children had not been ill-treated in any way land had apparently been well fed. Defendant was accustomed to collect pig-wash in the locality, and used ito take the children with her. She thad done this almost daily since ithe children were first missing, but they had not been recognised by The mother of one of the little jzirls, said that she lost her child jon June 22, and dic not see her again until she saw her with defendant.
She had been told that the natives of a Hakka village close by were in the habit of stealing dren, and that there were several small girls there for sale.
'A month jor s0 ago, she had gone to reside Reclamation Street, and from that time the defendant used to all at her house for pigwash. Someone told witness that defendant came from the Hakka village, and suggested that witness should tell that she wished to buy a little girl. defendant brought two little Witness did so, and next day ther of them being her daughter, but she did not buy one.
The next day defendant _cam¢ rain and brought her another little girl for whom she said she wanted §150. The child looked up and said Mother." She was her own little girl. ut then sai own lie gi Defenda id that if plainti!) were the gil mother, she must have compensation for having kept her.
The mother of the other little gid said she lived with the previous witness. Her daughter had accom- Agency. pa ied the other little girl on June 22 and she had not seen her again anti she was brought back on Sun-lay.
She had been told that she had been harboured by defendant.
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