A GLASGOW HORROR.

Poverty Bay Standard, Volume X, Issue 1069, 4 May 1882, Page 4

A GLASGOW HORROR.

The Sheriff Court of Glasgow was crowded during the trial of the action against Jessie 11. Wallace, ex-matron of the Lochburn Industrial School, for the maltreatment of Mary Jane Park, a girl thirteen years of age, who was flogged until her flesh was red and she was lamed, her scant clothing coming off in the struggle. When in her agony she cried for a drink of water a basin of water was dashed about her. After the flogging she was put under the cold spray. She was taken to a room in which there was no furniture but a table, and the first night of her incarceration she had to lie upon the floor without bedding, We quote a few lines from the evidence of Janet Buntine, a girl who had to hold the girl Park “ firmly," under threat of being punished Miss Wallace ordered the girl to lie over a chair, which she refused to do, whereupon she gave her about thirteen lashes. Miss Wallace was very angry, and tore off all the girl’s clothes ; after which she gave her a great many lashes. Twice the girl went on her knees, asking the matron's forgiveness, and as often it was refused. She (Park) received about fifty lashes altogether. The blows were all hard, and Miss Wallace appeared tired after giving them. On Park’s body she saw red flesh, especially on the left side, with the blows. The girl tried to run away, and she held out her dress in front of her. She was quite naked by that time. It was evident when she tried to run away that she could not move her limbs properly—that she limped. In the course of the punishment she asked for a drink of water, as she said she was about to die. On this Miss Greenhill took a basin of Water that stood in the lobby, and dashed it about her.” Miss Wallaee, the humane (?) matron of the school, was fined £2O and costs, and was relieved of her duties, but there the matter ended. If ever there was a case of cruelty demanding criminal prosecution this was it.