The Archive · 1926

Promise of Marriage

Witness, continuing, that, while in hospital defendant sent for hor and later when he was in prison she took food to him. She used to buy the food with money earned by her sewing. He was in the army for four years after she first met him and he often visited her privately and was supplied with food. He was eventually sent home and before leaving said he would come back and marry her. When he was leaving zhe bought presents and clothing for him with her own earnings. He said that if be did not come back he would send for her.

Five months later he came back to Rangoon and after being out of employment for some time got a job with the police. During the time he was unemployed she kept him on what little money she could earn from her drees-making. When he became a policeman he used to help with the expenses. This, said Plaintiff, went on for four years and as he promised to marry her not mind working for him.

suggestion she left Rangoon three years ago and came to Shanghai to look for a job for him.

She came to Shanghai two months ahead of Browne who provided her with the money for her passage but as she could not find anything for him she asked him to come to Shanghai himself. When he arrived she took him to her sister's house where she had been aving and had to borow money to seep things going, living there for ight months when he got a job the water works at Hongkong. In order to enable him to get to Hongkong she borrowed $100 and her clothes to make shirts for him. A short time later returned dirty and with only a stick,

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