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> women for keeping an unlicensed brothel, let us
> flee!" Tai-Yau ran up a ladder through a scuttle out upon the flat
> roof of the house, her old servant following and Mrs. Lau behind. The
> inspector and interpreter followed, while the informer escaped from
> the house. Mrs. Lau managed to reach the hatch of the next house, No.
> 44, and ran down that into the street, hotly chased by the inspector.
> He said in his testimony: "I pursued the woman down the trap, and
> followed her right into the street. I pursued and she ran up the
> steps of Peel street and up to Staunton street, and a Lokong [Chinese
> constable] caught her about ten yards from Aberdeen street." Then the
> occupants of the ground floor of 44 Peel street called to Inspector
> Lee and told him that some people had fallen from the roof into their
> cook-house, and Inspector Lee said in his testimony: "I went into the
> cook-house and saw the deceased [the old servant of Tai Yau] lying on
> the granite on her face, with her head close to an earthenware chatty
> [water-bottle] which I pointed out, and the bundle of clothing with a
> Chinese rule lying on the top of her head, or on the back of the neck.
> Close beside her was another woman lying on the other side of the
> chatty with her feet against the wall and her head out toward the ...