ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT AT THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL.
Representations were made to the Hon. the Commissioner of Customs to-day of alleged ill-treatment of an inmate of the Industrial School. Mary Doig (a girl aged ten years, who had been twice before licensed out ©f the instituti3n to her parents) .was re-committed to the Reformatory for larceny recently. Last night she escaped and returned to her parents home, complaining that she had been cruelly manacled to a post, but that she had dissevered the chains and made good her escape. The chains were, we are informed, removed from the child's leg in the presence of the police. These facts were this morniug represented to Mr M 'Lean by the girl's parents, and Messrs Strode and Watt were appointed a commission to inquire into the matter. Certain other circumstances aave been brought under our notice, but as the whole matter will form the subject of inquiry, we refrain from publishing them. In the interests of the institution and its officers, as well as of the child's parents, the inquiry should be conducted publicly.
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Evening Star, Issue 4285, 20 November 1876, Page 2
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179ALLEGED ILL-TREATMENT AT THE INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL. Evening Star, Issue 4285, 20 November 1876, Page 2
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