A HEARTLESS WOMAN.
A NEGLECTED CHILD.
AND A DISGRACEFUL 11 PENALTY.”
By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright’ Received 10,47 p.m., Sept. 29. Sydney, Sept. 29. An unmarried woman has been fined £1 on a chargo of exposing a four-year-old child in a yard in a manner likely to result in bodily suffering. Tho police evidence showed that the child was kept amongst fowls where accused was employed ns a servant. It had acquired their habits of scratching tho earth with feet and hands and crowing in imitation of fowls in every way. Tho nurse of the beuevolent asylum where it was sent deposed that tho child was in a filthy condition, covered with fowl lice. For two or three days it would not speak, and crowod and chuckled round other children like a fowl. Tho child refused to go to bed, perching on a cot.
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Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1009, 30 September 1903, Page 2
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142A HEARTLESS WOMAN. Gisborne Times, Volume X, Issue 1009, 30 September 1903, Page 2
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