A PITEOUS CASE.
WIDOW'S IMPRISONMENT. By Telejrajm—Press Asspciation-Oopyrighi "Times" and Sydney "Sun" Services. (Rec. March 4, 6.5 p.m.) London, March 4. .Speaking in the House of Lords, tho Marquis of Selborne referred to the imprisonment of a- widow as tho result of a charge laid by tho Society for tho Protection of Children. 'This widow, it was previously reported, 7 was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. -Sho occupied' a dark room without a fireplace at Clerkonwell, with her three baroly-clothod, • starving children, who were bordering on idiocy. Tho children were fed on broken victuals, which the woman took homo. The Magistrate described the caso as ono of medieval barbarity. Lord Selborne said that the children were well fed, and'their mother wa-s earning 20s. Weekly. She could not buy clothes for them to send them to school, and she knew that discovery meant prosecution for overorowding, and separation from her children. If it were true, 'it was a most piteous caso. The Archbishop of Canterbury (Dr. Davidson) contended that the law did not compel Boards of Guardians to break up homes.
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Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1999, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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180A PITEOUS CASE. Dominion, Volume 7, Issue 1999, 5 March 1914, Page 5
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