HUMAN SALES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1957, 6 April 1885, Page 2

HUMAN SALES.

Mrs Wilson, who is a coarse filthy woman, keeping a foundling hospital, at San Francisco, has caused a Sensation littlo inferior to any of those Among a higher set of folks. Truly, the happenings among this community are istrange, and would be unbelievable did we not see. A short time ago a little white girl was observed, dressed a la Chinese, in company with a female heathen, who took as .much care of the little thing as though she had been veritably her child. The policeman demanded the reason of this strange departure from Christian manner in dressing up mademoiselle ala Chinese. The Chinawomananswered thatshegot thechild from her sister, who got it she knew not where. The man of the star, by virtue of that star, took the couple into custody, and inarched them to the City Prison, where an investigation took place, and the Christian baby was taken from Madam Ah Yuu. This discovery put tho police on the alert, and, after foraging about, they found that this hag, Mrs. Wilson, was in tho habit of selling the babes of tho poor unfortunates who took shelter in hor hospital, I liavo not seen her, but from statements made I fducy that, saving the swivel eye,'she is a second edition of La Ohouette in Sue's "Mysteries of Paris," Following up the track, the defenders of ihe law came across thirteen white girls sold to the Heathen Chinee. Mrs Wilson sold dead babies to students for £lO, and living white girl babies to Chinamen for£ls. Her mains operandi was peculiar. She drugged the baby, and wrapped it up like a parcel of dry goods, then delivered it to its future owner; so that no one could actually swear they saw white flesh and blood sold to the heathen. The thirteen children, aged respectively from six months to three years old, are npw safe in possession of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, and will be placed in the different asylums. The poor things arc n am ec\ by Chinese cognomen —AhSue, Ah Mow, &c,-aiid seemed quite attached to their heathen foster-mothers. They were first taken to a City Prison, where they made night hideous-by their yells, refusing to be comforted. Some were under the influence of opium, nnd others were covered with a rash, but all seemed to love the Chinawomen, who bewailed their loss with tears, Pretty rough, when white flesh and blood are to pass into the hands of Chinamen and women. What they will do with the white slavedealer, Mrs, Wilson, does not at present appear, but no doubt they will inflict a mild punishment or fine, after tho equitable laws of San Francisco, the peculiar, —Silverspen.