A FEMININE FIEND.

Evening Star, Issue 4256, 17 October 1876, Page 3

A FEMININE FIEND.

i oJCipeeo&aie ' 'oase- ■of inhumanity*;tbia child was brought before Cburt on the 29th ulfr. The 'Mercury 're- J liirtes that a respectable looking woman,; named Mrs Graham, was charged with un-» lawfully beating a-girl named Henrietta Myers. The girl, with three other children' •younger than herself, we the daughters of; Captain Myenspof tfce whaling, hjarque Marie 1 ; Laurie. Their mother died some two years; care of their father's sister, Mrs Graham, whej has been, receiving; E5 per month for their; support; '< JQW th'<P %m H§ririeW- and her sister Lucy where they had often b"een r forbidden to go, and >oh returning ;> Ht!irAet)ta 'solemnly ; declared that ( she had.lpeenijnan outhouse. For this deliberate and jilso for, disobeying hcr'dommand'ndt'to go 4nto ; tne neighbor's house, M*. :<lraljara'f flogged the girl'. Taking her into the kitchen, Bhe made her strip off every particle of clothing; then she went into the garden and obtained a number of switches from a" plum tree, and with these she whipped the girl for a quarter of an hour. JNot satisfied with that, she put ths<gjrl!Ao ;fcedV)aliArmbbed s&tt- butt&f ]nn her haoK, and as the «*kjp was brekenfin several places, it can easily be imagined how. the! ipain' < would J be Zuic&mtiti .H The woman's brutality would, in fact be beyond credence were it not for the conclusive evidence of the girl, and also the testimony of Dr Hall. He examined the girl the day after the flogging, and found her back from the nape of the neck downwards, reaching evtn as far as the back of the thighs, covered with read Btreaks. The marks were ao numerous, he says, that he did not attempt to count them; the skin was perfectly j mapped. Besides this, her body was in an | emaciated condition, from the want of suffljoient nourishment, so that the woman had [actually been starving the girl. The Magistrate held that the chastisement was grossly excessive, and in fact amounted to terrible cruelty. They therefore sent the woman to ..gaol for three months without the option of J a fine, besides ordering her to pay two i 'guineas costs.