JUSTICE IN A FIX.
At the Sunderland Police Court, a boy named Clark was brought up on remand, charged with having been found destitute in the streets, and it appeared that the boy was utterly beyond parental control. The Bench thought him a fit subject for an industrial school. But it appeared that the prisoner could not be sent to the Wellesley, because he had only one eye; nor to the Industrial School, because he was a Roman Catholic j nor to a Reformatory, because he was not a criminal ) nor to the workhouse, because his father would not consent to his going there. The Bench have to cut through this gordian knot of difficulties by fining the father 5s for his inability to the youth in harness, leaving the youthful prisoner free to run away again, and have his father fined another crown for his inability to catch him.
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Evening Star, Issue 3974, 19 November 1875, Page 3
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150JUSTICE IN A FIX. Evening Star, Issue 3974, 19 November 1875, Page 3
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