HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIII, Issue 69, 21 March 1878, Page 4

HORRIBLE BRUTALITY.

Tho noble pastime of wife-boating has risen to bo a scieno in England, and hae attained to such dimensions that the no**vsp&pers have laiely assigned it a special department in their intelligence, in the same manner aa to sporting or cricket. We read within the corners of one smsll paragraph of feu lines the other day of half-a-dozen varieties of this elegant amusement of a civilised people. At Blackburn, Michael Scully, that individual is unquestionably an Iriihmar, danced upon his wife, as Mr Froude might dance upon an historical wrong, and at the conclusion of tbe exciting exercise kicktd her in the frontal bone of her face, from which death is sure to ensue. As another example, we may quote the case of Albert Cummins in the same town — and we think form this gentleman's prajuomen we may set him down as a friend of the brave Saxon monarch — kicked an eye out of bis wife's head. While William White received his wife's welcome when he came home by seizing a paraffin lamp, breaking it on her bead, aud pouring tbe contents over her body, and then setting tbe saturated clothing on fire. He locked the door lest she should escape, and quietly sat down to enjoy the blaze, unconcerned by the agonizing shrieks of the burning woman. At length the neighbours burst in the dcor and found the poor creature in a sheet of flame. Her death is almost certain in a day or two. The terror ol the cat is the only recollection that will keep characters of White's class wilh a proper tear of the law before their eyes. — Irish Times.