THE TABLE TURNED.
A lad named Michael Hedderman was brought up at the Bow street Police Court charged with stealing a coat belonging to John Fogearty, his muster, who was a tailor. The boy was an indoor apprentice, and stated he stole the coat on purpose, preferring to go to prison, rather than retnuin in his master's service. The wretched appearance of Hedderman caused Ihe Magistrate to listen to his story, when it came out that, the boy's daily food consists of a penny-worth of German sausage and a , few slices of bread and treacle or dripping. His bed w«s some old rags, and such articles as soap and! water were never allowed him. A doctor w;is called, and he testified that the boy's emaciated condition was owing to insufficient food and improper treatment, and another youth, •who had escaped out of Foggarty's clutches, corroborated Hedderman's statement. Eventually the boy was discharged, but his master was sent to prison for six months for his cruelty, where he will be enabled to study the benefits to be dcrired from a low diet.
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Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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181THE TABLE TURNED. Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3347, 13 September 1879, Page 3
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