A MISCHIEVOUS AND DANGEROUS FREAK.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3882, 28 December 1883, Page 4

A MISCHIEVOUS AND DANGEROUS FREAK.

Tho Nelson Mail of a late dak , reports a most mischievous act, which is likely 1o lead to serious results, perpetrated by a lad named Wylie, about eleven years of age. n daughter of 3D. , 'Edwards, of Bridgestreet, aged two and a-half years—a pvcU-y little dot whu is a universal favorite in her immediate neighborhood—was playing about with an elder sister near theSyinons Memorial, and was just reaching up to the fountain to get a mug of water, when young Wylie, who was loitering about the spot, picked up a handful of quicklime, which had fallen from :i passing cart, and deliberately threw it into the poor little child's face. Of course, as soon as it came into contact with the natural moisture of the eyes it at once began to burn, and the torture the infant—for she is little more—suffered was terrible to witness. She was at once taken home and Dr Scaly was sent for and did all he could to relieve her agony, but up to the present time it is extremely doubtful whether the eyesight can be preserved. The poor girl is also badly burnt about the lips and nostrils. Wylie, who, ■with liis younger brother, had been an inmato of St. Mary's Industrial School for some lime, has the reputation of being a thoroughly mischievous character, and he is generally credited with a number of acts of destruction and even cruelty, and if half of them arc true he ought to be remitted to the school or placed under restraint in some other institution, for ho is not iit to be at large."