Cruelty to Children.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IX, Issue 97, 27 March 1885, Page 3

Cruelty to Children.

PUBJ»JC.-JNJ>IQ:NATION. . HORRIBLE REVELATIONS. ■ ' ' ■ ■ i - : '„ * * . ■ • (UNITED PBBS.S ASSOCIATION ' ' PuNEDIN, Mni'ch 25. . The summary information against the Flemings have been withdrawn, and they are, no,w charged with indictable offences; V MV t)enniston v is the proseciitbr for the .inhabitants .of the; Flat. There was quite a scene m Court this mornihg. \v aen VMrs Fleming* agperfred a large number of.women made fierce demonstratioiis agalnstT her,wh l iie 'Fleming him- ' gelf was heartily hissed. . ;.. Ci , v , ' V , , ... ;1 '„.,.., .., , Later. The charges' against Flernhig and hig wife of. cruelty to children, .was gone into at the Resident MaoistiUtie-4 Coxirt today, before Messrs Fenwick and Grouveray, J.P ; J| informations were for common ass"aultij)ut these had" been withdrawn, jemd assault, . resulting m gi-ovious bodily hurni, subsiltuted. Mr Daflflistion proaeciited, and -Mr McGregor defended. The case against Mrs C irrie Fldmingi of assaulting John Fleming, aggd^ll,,, was first, tak.en. : The .boy. said that .some neighbors followed him home from ! school on Eriday : last and said, something, to his stepmother, > who afterwards ga,ve • him • a hammering. She made him strip. naked, then laid him oh her bed'in tne bedrootn face dowriwardsy' and beat? him with, his fetther's 'cart-whip' all over luVbacK '. downwards. It was ; a sore Ue'atin'j*;' ."''He""did'Jit>t I cry'.'6at' be- ' cause iik "woiild have . [ got , three times, worse. (Sensation m Court j which was cramme^,;mainly by WjOmen). Jn cijoss'examina,tio,n^ ; the boy .said, he was 'some- . times .riaugj^y,, ai^'hatt hit his sister with his 'fist, ''for which he had been beaten"t%tt) this ■wa's'hot on the Friday referred to. He wa.B, Split to school, pa. the Frltfay 1 with his kmckeirbockers'sevni up, because m the night he had got up, lit a candle., and, taken ,ai biscuit, .because he felt hungry^ Oiie of the' neighbors named Mrs Greatrix, said that "she followed the boy^h'oilie^bn' Friday; because she sfi\v him with His -trousers sewn vp 1 ' as high' j as the'yr'could be, and he looked. a perf^t fnglit. ;•_ SWtbld Mr.i Fleming; she oii^ht : to. $c ashamed of; herself for 1 treatidg ai^otherfesS;^y so. The boy on the^F/^day.was.^afteKwards taken' to.' her hluse^jhy^Ae police, and she described his back as having the appqairance of a lean steak. The -accused was committod ; for trial, -bail being, allo.wwlc -^■herself; iinui^JQOii find, two sureties of iiOOeaolwj. ... t..,.':.- ■,-_,<, A c^ajge againsjt : .,4lexander Fleioiag,i the faihei: t _.o,f"assa,pitihg. i tlie;samo. boy was th%i;procoe.dod i with.' „Hhe boy gave evulencg ; _ that he ;hadMßtruck)hiß sister.'His. fatliftii. took him out of ;bedy dook oil, his night-shirb^tied him to'theibedj'-and beat' him • with' the ; whip. (Suppressed cry ' of- indignation^ m- 'Courti)'^ Mary" Flemiiig 'gaJte evidence aB t6 r^eeiiig her ; brother whipped at y the' bedpost?. ; " -When asked, she said her father had .been kind, to thetrivbut ditI J n6t'aiTSwer, "wnen^gked _'.' if she loved- him; '''The hearing of-'tUis'-case was a9iourhed"tiU-to-inorrow.