Shocking Ill-treatment OF A BOY.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 3, Issue 33, 14 March 1883, Page 2

Shocking 111-treatment OF A BOY.

, (united t FB^as AasppiATiq&yV 11 ™ "* )! i „: > 'Bi7N£MNj'Mai-to3r" I The Star to-night harthe following • — i-Rttmour'says '■'• thatr th'e "pdlfce/'kciiii^ on information supplied by; a EtrnibfeV 6th j the'iiiliabitants of South Ddd^ilmv HkrW< i bro'tigbif to light a Hakb 6£ shocking ltt* ■>' ' treatmen^bf J a r.hildtby its parental Att" 2 1 information against the parents is to b»^' laid, 'and' the cise willbe adjudicated' bilß' by the city Bench. The child alleged^ to be ill-treated is a 'boy of seven and a half years old. It is knoWn thai? for severaLdgys the boy had his artna fcied' f ' behind his back so that he viras-«nt*b&v to move them m any way. In that stateho was ldcked up m : an Pbuthoasefi for several hours at a-stretcb. Daring" the stepmother's temporary' absence, some neighbours] ;gained i.an entrance ■4n'to the house land removed the boy, whose -condition is- said to-hatek4)eea. 1 . pi.tiable. He,.waa o in a .higj^-Btate' of feyer,-aod was suffering from loflamma" tipn of yone of the /lungs. One of. ,ther bones of ]the ,^ft . fore- wm' ! had been 1 recently fracffcured, and 'aprjare'ntty^Vaa "unset, and hisi back bore marks iof recent braises. The police,- on- becoming ac* qdainted r with "I the . circumstances^ :had," .the, boy examined by Dr de Zouche, who. bordered his y . l^moygl' to i the .fatbipitali and is now aUenainarhim ther& ! r4 ~ 2 -