Parental Brutality to a Child.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 194, 12 March 1887, Page 2 (Supplement)

Parental Brutality to a Child.

Here h an instance of " jusHoe'-* justice ' in thii tine old country. When 1 icad if, T thought with grim satisfaction on tbcexemplary eentence lately executed in Syo'aoy on a batch of young ruffians who hud criminally assaulted a defenceless Lsi'-i Ootobor, in a town in Shropshire, a rioctor and his wife — byname Mr and Mim Homy E, Williarm— moving in reppeotebioßociely, well connected and so fovth, flo^od Ci\en< poor little daughter Gladys nearly to doftth. The child, svho was only faiv years old, had been negligent, with iicv io3flon9-Bhe could not spell " fox." Wlioieupon after a dry-bread luncheon, she v.-as taken into the nursery and li 'trw,od by hor unnatural father wi'h a riding v,-hip foi halt-an-hour. Her acroamti T .vcto dfp«dful. After thirty minutes' tortui'o port- wine was sant for, and then the flogging wum roeumod. The poor girl, who w.ia much brui3cd on the lower part of hor body, fainbt-d away at the close of her panifihmenfc. The jury found the nncueod guilty, and tho chairman, instead of sending thorn to gaol, inflicted the miserable fino of £25 each.

Mrs Groen9— " Timothy, what. lmve you dona with the letter that was tying on the bureuu ?"— " Timothy, I put i< in tbo 1 otterbox ma'am." "Oh! provoking! Didn't jou see there was no address on fcho onvelopf^ ?'' "Yes. ma'am: but I thought yor dutn". want nobody to know who yor v/as ivutin to."