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Street, were arraigned before the Registrar General, charged with
    buying and selling girls for evil purposes, and also with selling
    girls to go to California, and with disturbing the peace. The
    Inspector described the house thus: "I found all the defendants
    on the first floor. I found six girls in the house and three
    children. The floor was very crowded ... four of the girls were
    in a room by themselves at the back of the house. They were all
    huddled up together, and seemed frightened. The defendants were
    in the front part of the house. The girls at the back part of the
    house could not have got out without passing through the room
    where the defendants were. This house has been known to me for a
    long time as one where young girls were kept to be shipped off to
    California."

    A watch-repairer and jeweler who had resided opposite this place
    for three or four years declared that he knew the first defendant,
    A-Neung, and that she had lived there some years, on the first
    floor; that he had seen a number of girls going in and out of
    the house, seeming to arrive by steamer, some in chairs and some
    walking, and that he knew from 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." Anothe