MEDIAEVAL BARBARITY.
HALF-NAKED AND STARVING. By 'Gible—Press Association—Copyright London, February 20. As a result of a charge laid by the Society for the Protection of Children a widow, a charwoman, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment. She occupied a stinking, dark, tireless room in Clerkenwell, with three barely-cloth-ed starving children who were bordering on idiocy and were fed with the broken victuals the woman took home. The magistrate described the ease as one of mediaeval barbarity.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 23 February 1914, Page 5
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76MEDIAEVAL BARBARITY. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 201, 23 February 1914, Page 5
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