A Filipino named Antido, who has been acting as manager for two young Filipino girls, entertainers at the Crest Hotel, was before the court on a charge of assault. Waiving a preliminary hearing, he was bound over to the higher court on a bond of G. $5,000.
requesting that sufficient security be required, Major Holcomb stated that the accused is alleged to have taken two young Filipino girls, some nine months ago, on a trip as en-terrainers through Java and Singapore. He is also said to have tried to enter the United States with them, but was refused admission. These girls, who look hardly more than children, have been giving performances of singing and dancing at the Crest Hotel for which it had been agreed that $15 a performance should be paid them. Not only has this salary been withheld from them, but they have been treated with cruelty and forced to live under improper conditions.
Tt was alleged that on Saturday the accused struck and beat them with a razor strop, causing bruises, and drew a pistol on one of them, so that they were in terror of him. He was said to have gambled away
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