A Painful Scene

Feilding Star, Volume XIII, Issue 148, 11 June 1892, Page 3

A Painful Scene

. Some;' three' years ago (says a iahcTbn paper) "a : magistrate, who is a married nian and possessed of :at lepst one., daughter, sat ; in his^ court trying tb^er.effulatiqn rouod of more or less trivjal^offences, ; when the case of a woman chaffed with being drunk, disorderly 1 , and* assaulting the police was. called.. The woman got into the dbck| and' it *ras ; noticed she was heavily yeiled, ; When the magistrate Requested th^ 'woman to ! state what she had tto say ■ in answer to the accusations^bi-qught against her by the police, she merely' shook her head aodsaM: nothing. Then the raogistrate having made sundry scathing remarks withjifiference to women of the prison erk; class in general, and the iniquities of her special case in particuiar, sentenced the young woman to: three c mpn ths^ imprison - m6nt. withjbafd laUour. Then the prisoner raised-the veil, and, facing the inagistrat^ " Thank you, fattier^" out of Court. 1 1 wa9 twenty-five minutes before the magistr»t^eXsPvered ; fr6'm the fainting .Jifr;intA-.r*;hie;h! he. bad fallen •■ upon Discovering that the prisoner whom he had rjijist -son fenced was his own ctiild. vi 'Tbisstory is a positive Tact, and tlie circunstapces are, well remembered by ■''. sM)se .l'yrhp "dwell ,in~.the neighbourhood J of the "Court, fopr which the magistrate presides at the present time.,, He. ; is ■■-. now celebrated forthe lenient: way; m which he deals with all cases in wiiich, women tyre prisoners. v rAt , the fame -. time, i t BEqnld.b^addledjhe is o.ne;pf tUe best, most popular,i.an4):njost jnstvof Lo^i- - don Pplice-coUrth magistrates. ;