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what he had seen of her and the
    girls that she was a buyer and seller of girls. A carpenter living
    below in the same house deposed: "I have always seen a number of
    young girls being taken in and out of the house. The age of the
    girls ranged from 10 to 20 years. There was always a great deal of
    crying and groaning amongst the girls up-stairs. I have not heard
    any beating, but the girls were constantly crying. The crying was
    annoying to me and the other people in the shop. The people living
    in the neighborhood have, together with myself, suspected that the
    girls were bought and sold to go to California." Another neighbor
    deposed to knowing the third defendant as "in the habit last year
    of taking young girls of various ages, from 10 to 20, about the
    Colony for sale. I knew this defendant wanted to sell the girls,
    as she asked me if I knew any woman who wanted to buy them. She
    comes from Canton." A girl from Wong-Po found in No. 71 brothel,
    told of being taken to Canton at eleven years of age and sold by
    her sister as a servant to the Lam family. After being in this
    family three or four years, her mistress and the second defendant,
    Tai-Ku, a relation of her mistress and daughter to the first
    defendant (A-Neung, keeper of the brothel), took her to a
    "flower-boat," and the next day by steamer to Hong Kong, and she
    was taken to the house of A-Neung. Her mistress stayed in the
    house three days, and sold her to the first and second defendants
    (mother and daughter) for $120. She added: "This was in the tenth
    month last year.... I was never allowed to go out. I have never
    been out of the house since I came to Hong Kong [nearly six
    months]. First, second and third defendants never went out of the
    house together [some one always being on guard]. Last year Tai-Ku
    and A-Neung told me that I should have to go to San Francisco.
    This year I was again told that I was going to San