CRUELTY TO SON.
FATHER SENT TO PRISON.
SENTENCE OF SIX MONTHS. (By Telegraph.—Press Association.) TIMARU, Monday. Described by the police inspector and the child welfare officer as the worst case in their experience, James Hardy Smith, a labourer, appeared in the Police Court to-day charged with assault on his son, aged 10. Evidence was given that the boy had been cruelly marked as the rosult of a thrashing and had had to receive hospital attention. Smith was sentenced to the maximum penalty of six months' imprisonment.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 245, 17 October 1933, Page 12
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