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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XI, Issue 2, 3 January 1876, Page 2

' m "} . ''*'_,*' ■"■• *'.'- '-- r .'•'' ''•- . : \' : Af ! ■ To the Editor of the ' ' Evening MAin.' Sir— Doubtless you are aware that for ,some time past' the criminal "calendar of the home country has been swelled b_.-a phase of crime which, I am sorry " to "'say, is as common as it is brutal; fb refer to wife-beat- - ing— a practice lower ing ' man below the-* 1 brute creatiph/ ' jNo . society shciild> tolerate a wretch who brutally attacks the weak being •he has pledged hims'elf before God .tof*prb-f . teet. ' Such.,a."mdn is a : cotvard of ttie deepest dye. No wonder \ve have youthful criminals r' the offspring of such a parent could be _io : other. In the treatment of children, tbo, the'' inhuman .propensity pf .parents. : is ;often exemplified. -,Of ,this I Juid, ia tangible probf on* Saturday. eyehing, Jast, when in^^cbrninon, with many.others;! w;___ Vattrac'ted/.ijy .the fshiieks of a woman to' one of; o_.r/phbiicf:(thor6ug_ifares, and there obise-.yed^a'bra-e'dr^gingf . his 'daugHter -by tbehkir^ai<.nt tbe grovel . \ yts% :<§ ||Je^9w| with by a by^o;^ i |t;f

..■^ic__^juttGjure;a woman held foj.bih "terms;: |Phe:^ steptnot-tp.^ff^lie-gifljand,' Mit hcpf huWand^Cwho^rby ; ftM: way >has |felve||bMidr|nj fMdXvltotinfiy boasted Spit heppuldf^o wgajfc he .ike^d fyMi bis o .gl f to'pWsfhxthe-i^fehder.tl?^,' %a JheWfvpwveVal^ throughout New : Zealand, but - it; strikes me . if measures are not taken to suppress such brutal scenes as the above its inoral reputa? tion will suffer materially. In conclusion, I .truest the circumstances :of * the c^e will be considered a sufficient apologyffdr |my. | TOOubliiigftyou.-— I am,fc-&c., *»jCX.. :M, _„> u* j . An Eye-witness. . Nelson, January 3, 1876.