BRANDED FOR LIFE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2132, 2 December 1890, Page 3

BRANDED FOR LIFE.

Word comes from the city of Bylstock, Poland, of the fiendish revenge taken on a poor boy for stealing a single apple. Isaac Shilckewich is 17 years old. One day ho was passing by an orchard owned by Dr Sergiu Freudianow, one of the weallhi eat men in the province, famous in that part of Poland as a scientist. The doctor saw the youth take a apple, and despatched his servants after him. Dr Freudianow first gave Isaac a severe thrashing. That did not wear out his rage, but seemed rather to increase his violence. “ I’l teach you,” he said, “to rob people I will mark you so that all the world shall know you for the thief that you are.” He bade his servants bring him some stamping irons which he used about the place. He directed them to bind Isaac so that he could not move a muscle. He took the steel etters and set up the Hebrew word (< gamff ” io Russian characters, He plunged the stamp in the fire until it was almost red hot. Then, with fiendish skill, ha forced the iron upon the forehead of the boy. The victim fainted.

The doctor then set up the Polish word “ dieb,” meaning thief, in the frame. When it was sufficiently hot he stamped the word upon both cheeks. The fiendish doctor chuckled over them, and again he resumed his inhuman task of preparing the stamps.

1 bis time he set the Russian word for thief 3 “ bopr,” in the frame. Tor the third time he heated it and pressed the red-hot stamp upon Isaac’s upper lip and chin.

The awful screams of his victim warned the doctor that he must use caution. He carefully dressed the wounds and gave the boy an opiate; then be sent him home. The barbarity of the deed aroused the poor people of the city, and they threatened vengeance. Dr Freudianow became frightened, and offered to pay the boy 10,000dols to have the matter dropped. The money was refused, however, and a prominent lawyer has taken up the boy’s case. The doctor has been arrested.

More women in proportion to the population are employed in industrial occupations in England than in any other European country. Twelve per cent of the industrial classes are females.