SHOCKING CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.
CABLE NEWS.
United Press Associ.i.b;i-l?v Klectric Telegraph v.opyrii«ht.
JUVENILE DRUDGES. SOLICITOR'S WIFE IMPRISONED. HER HUSBAND FINED £SO. Received January 13, 10.33. p.m. LONDON, January 13. The wife of Charles Rushworth, a solicitor of York, was sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for cruelty and shocking neglect of two adopted girls fourteen and thirteen years of age respectively. Both were drudges in housework. One perished by lifting clothes and burning her flesh with a hot iron.' The husband of the accused, who is secretary of the York Education Committee, was fined £SO for failing to become acquainted with the condition of the children. The case aroused intense popular feeling.
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9027, 14 January 1908, Page 5
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111SHOCKING CRUELTY TO CHILDREN. Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXI, Issue 9027, 14 January 1908, Page 5
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