INHUMAN TREATMENT OF A BOY.

Auckland Star, Volume XIX, Issue 3971, 20 April 1883, Page 3

INHUMAN TREATMENT OF A BOY.

Ih e Fare VUarged With J Manslaughter' .

(By xELEGRAPH.-PitKSS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, Thursday. T-the W-in case to-day theurown Pro:rr(MrH»g«itt) said the prosecuUon n , pd to prove by the testimony of witwS2 lfet£ ls«fs child dwposs" i rea dily than »t other- «■ m"ould b developed, to cause it to wfl e wo, nl,f np D r o U 3 W hen otherwise it might teC°mwnJ s"and generally to shew by neVe n ?o That medic'l evidence, that the ««•* °t to which this child was exposed Ueat^hVS"either to occasion disease which WW ifra^e death in a child not predisposed ??, o «tle chad were predisposed to it, tolt> i rJfl the death of the child. Of would be C outae,in«»" guilty of the,, B?Sment would be guilty of manT^hter The evidence given by some "E« el" to-day had reference to the period beaten, and looked the Nam, naa w= poor starved, llluscd «««" jSf ihe principal witnesses was ffba Mclcheson, wife of WiUian, SVeeito^seeiSfScc^d &s%**»% 5 a window in his 1 ? '« honec- Witness was iq her own £3?varat the time. The .boy beckomd w to hta, and she spoke: to him n e was tremblmg and .earned to be-ravin* t " Jet out for a drink. He was with--1 Bhoe" or stockings. He had a.cut Monhead and a black eye. She gave Lome bread, which he ate ravenously. Z was nß»ble to raise the window to eive him a drink. The child looked cold, hungry, aid Wuhteied. On the 2nd ol March, sbe awthe boy get out of this.window.. Be lied to climb over witness's fence. -He was cold and shivering as when the had prerioasly seen h.m, and she save him somethine to eat. The witness then detailed tatementa by the child to her. as to> injur- !„ on his body, which he said had been cansed by his mother's treatmeut.