PUNISHING A SCHOLAR.
Dunedin, This day. At the Palmerston R.M. Court yesterday a charge was brought against a' schoolmaster named Warburton of ill-treating a boy named Ross, 10 years old. The boy had been accused of tolling a falsehood, and the teacher first made him kneel and beg a boy's pardon; then he hoisted him on another boy's back and strapped him ; and then he made the boy '' ride the donkey " —that is, the boy was placed astride a desk and made to leap along it, and was, flogged every time he jumped. One boy said he counted 38 strokes thus inflicted, but it was denied that there were so many. The Magistrate, Mr Robinson, dismissed the case, saying that ho could not think it such an excess of severity as wouMcompel him to put defendant in the position of a criminal; at the same time he thought if defendant had fully considered the matter he would not have inflicted puch a punishment.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4009, 28 May 1884, Page 3
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163PUNISHING A SCHOLAR. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 4009, 28 May 1884, Page 3
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