Shanghai, Jan, 25, Charged with traftcking in a female, three male and four female Chines¢ were brought before the First Special District Court yesterday for trial and they will hear their fate next Wednesday. The contre of interest in the case is a 15-year old girl named Chang Ching-feng, a native of Ningpo who is alleged to have been lured by the accused into houses of ill fame.
'The unfortunate girl, who did not want to return to her' guardian and therefore was turned over to a philan= Uhropie organization for care by the judge, was betrothed toa man named Zoo of Lao Kung Pech Alley oft Robison Road last year. Mer parents left Shanghai_In. search, of Jobs the interior. After their departure the Zee family, being poor, placed the iuinl under the guardianship of a man named Pang, who subsequently introduced her to work in a cotton mill.
In the mill she became acquainted with one of the accused women who was alleged to Wvive told her that to a brothel was better than work ing. After being assaulted by' the woman's husband the girl was then sent fo the two ollier accused women, fmanagcresses of brothels, and from that time on the unfortunate gir) had been leading a life of suffering until recently her guardian discovered her plight and informed the Louza police, who Feseued her.
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