PARENTS BOOED BY CROWD

Chronicle (Levin), 13 November 1946, Page 5

PARENTS BOOED BY CROWD

LONDON, Nov. 11. An angrv crowd jeercd and liooed wlien it was excluded from tlie Courtroom wliere Alary Tichner pleaded not guilty, reser'ved lior defence and was coniinitted for trial 011 charg'es of ili treating, neglecting and infiicting gricvous bodily harni 011 her daughter, cight-year-old Jcan Tichner. Alrs. Tichner and her jtusband have had police protection since an inspector, said at the opening of tlie case on \0vc1nb14r 4 that tliis was tlie worst case of ehild crueity ever handled. A crowd assembled outside the Court. tliis morning, but defendants had been brought into tlie Court earlier and entered bv a back way, thus avoiding the (leinonstratiou, which could lie heard continuing its tlie case procee'decl. George Tichner, husband of Alary fichner, pleaded not guilty to a charge of wilfully neglecting Jean. He said he had never seen his wife ili-treat the cliild, and added that he was out all day working as a street trader. He denied that he himself had ever hit the clfild for alleged dirtv habits. He thought the marks on the cliild 's body were a rasli contracted while-hop picking. Hhe did not appear to him half starved. Blie was treated exactlv the same as other children in the family. Tichner was committed for trial, after which the Tichners wero driven from the Court in a closed poliee van amid a storm of boos.