A CHADBAND.
(Daily News )
Ghadband cams to judgment m the Woatminetor Police Oonrt ia the person <f Edward Curte, Steele. Nothing more grotesquoly sad has ever been reported than thi-t story of a looal pßeaoher living on the mendicancy of a child of eleven, and busting him brutally when he did not bring homw enough money, The child Is now m an industrial achool, but, before ha went there, he was foond crawling about the streets *t two In the inorn<ng. fie dreaded going home |to faoe an angry fi»H>ar witbont being able to report a uufticiently brisk sale of oertiln tracts on ApustoJioal Christianity and Eternal Punishment entrusted to h a care Whea the tracts did not go «.ff well, ho wai to say that he was b*l ing thorn to support a sick parent. The el k parent, however, was sufficiently coavalesoent to thrash him within an (noh of his life if 1; e ventured to come beck empty handed. The father's defenO3 was that it was all done for fear of spoiling the ohild by sparing the rod. But hid rod was a knotted rope, and the place of correction I a d»ik room, while the blows were de- | liver ed on a body that was half starved. A neighbor, who described the unmoroifol thrashings administered to thla hardened little offender of eleven, broke down ai she gave her evidence. The violonoa was due to no exceptional outburst of ternpnr. The ohild was sometimes beaten aa of too lan five times m ona week, and hia Sabbatbn wore panned m the dark room, on a ration of bread and water. While the eon waa engaged. in this way, the father was holding forth on whik lit, waa p eased to call religion In Hyde Park, aod with Buch fervour as frequently to draw tears from hia own oyti In f«ot, he lived on what he did not understand — religion ; and declined to live by what he did— his trade of a carpenler. No people rej ice more than the truly religious when an impostor of this kind is exposed, and it must be a source of sincere satisfaction to them £o know that he was sentenoed to six monthV hard labor, with the prospect of a now prosecution on his release,, Thoro is no more of a moral m auci q, case a.-ainst religion, or against street prettohing. than there la against carpentering ; all that is proved is that a brute haß been found out. The Sooltty for the Protection of Children has done good service In taking up the prosecution
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 3
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434A CHADBAND. Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1482, 14 February 1887, Page 3
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