FIENDISH ATROCITIES ON CHILDREN.

Thames Star, Volume XVI, Issue 5052, 23 March 1885, Page 2

FIENDISH ATROCITIES ON CHILDREN.

Some horrible disclosures just made at ChalonS in France, ought to; serre to remind those who are in the habit of bestowing charity on child>beggars in this streets that too frequently they are,"in point of fact, giring money to and en« couraging infamous characters, who martyrise the helpless children in their power. The attention of the police at Cbalons was lately attracted by a little boy with one arm, and another child a cripple, wheeling himself about in a small, wooden box. Both children appeared so utterly^miserable and pain stricken that they were taken to the station, where they told a sad story of suffering. About two years ago, it transpired, the boys, who are cousins, aged respectfully 8 and 10, wera living with their parents at Barcelona, Whilst returning from school together, they were accosted by a man and woman, who enticed them to the railway station and brought them to Ferpignan. There, and subsequently at or near Chalons, one of the boys was made one-armed, the other, a cripple, the limbs it was requisite to suppress being bent and strapped np in the most cruel manner. After a time the little lad, who wheeled himself about in the box, was cut about the loins with a knife, corrosive liquid being poured on to big wounds. His legs were further attenu~ ated by ropes tightly wound rbund.them; in short the little martyrs were operated upon daily, and success baring attended; the horrible process, they were sent out to beg in the streets of rarious French towns. Happily, the man and women who tor* tured them hare been arrested, and 'will bo tried for their inhuman offence.