Wong Zung-tsoong, an ex-stable, and Wong Li-sz, a woman were charged under article 354 the Provisional Criminal Code wi trafficking in females between July 14 and 26 at 295 Thibet Road for the purpose of gain.
S, Barry testified that tid" arrested both accused in Thibet Road.
Complainant, Zung Koo-sz, told the Court that her husband' came to Shanghai on the 4th of th [present moon, and she came tos him the next' day. At the railway station she met a man named Sung, who said thet he would take her her husband's brother. Sung took her to the first accused's house and the second prisoner, by force, attempted to make her' become a prostitute, but she refused, She therefore ran away and found her way to her husband's brother, The first accused said that Sung came to him and sold to him the complainant for $180 but, on the ith, the girl ran away. As a matter of fact, he said, it was the second accused who bought her.
The female prisoner admitted being a woman of ill-fame and that she paid $190 for the girl. Her (the girl's) husband said that he was prepared to buy her back.
8, Barry told the Court that the'man Sung, who had sold the girl, hal gone' away to Wusih as soon as he received the money.
The accused were sentenced to Tsiang 24, his wife, were cautioned in connexion with a charge which kad been preferred against them of trafficking in child~ ren, contrary to article 349 of the Code, Tt was stated that they were concerned together on August 1, whilst bound to support their child, aged four yenrs, in unlawfully selling her for the purpose of gain, Teen Yau-tsao, charged with aiding and abetting in the case was likes wise enutioned.
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