Her first “ husband” she said, paid the woman who owned her $800 she was not worth that much now because she was getting old. She had lived here twenty years, and was a “ lillel girl” when she first came. Officer Bevan, who could talk good pigeon English, talked with her, and the statement was elicited that her name was Hoy. A woman of about 30 years of age sat on the edge of the bed. The room was about 6xl0 feet, and was decorated with great quantities of tinsel and China ornaments. Turning around the corner of the Pico house and diving into several narrow hallways, the officer pulled aside a curtain and entered a room, the reporter close at his heels. The police officer gave an air of authority to the expedition which had its effect in giving the reporter access to places he could not otherwise have entered and in inducing the inmates to talk. Last night a Herald reporter under the guidance of Police Officer Bevan, who is an authority on, and in Chinatown, made a thorough inspection of the place, with a view to obtaining some information about this traffic in human flesh which is being conducted in a land of liberty. Their owners hold bills of sale of their bodies, and transfer them as horses and cattle are sold. Most of them lead a luxurious life, living on the choicest food, wearing the most costly clothes, and leading a most lazy existence, but still they are slaves.
These slaves do not hoe cotton, or make bricks, or build pyramids, or labor in the sun and out in the field. Women Who Cost from Eight Hundred to Three Thousand Dollars-Child Slaves. What a “Herald” Reporter Aided by the Police Has Ascertained.
Chinese Women Bought and Sold Like Animals. To my eyes, it appears these ladies, although they were interviewed in “good pigeon English” by a white cop, were talking in a style closer to standard English than your typical CPE. Here, from the early post-frontier era in California, we have quotations. …But it turns out that women are documented speaking CPE too. The West Coast variety of Chinese Pidgin English was only spoken by men, you’d think from the gender ratio you’ve been seeing on this site…
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