Charge of 111-treating a Child.
— • *. |BT TBLKORA.PH.J I UNITED PKBBS ABBOOIATION.] Dukbdin, 18th March. D. D. Euneon, manager of the Mornington Tram Company, and Bobort London, an employ^, were fined for ill-treating a ohild. The ohild had been playing about the tram. The defendants had pUood it in a cupboard. The parents wore that the ohild had been lioryoui ever since, and given to scrotmingin its sloep. An attempt was made to show that the action had been brought bocauso there was a quarrel betweon tho looal policeman, whose ohild it was, and the manager, bat the Magistrate Eoid he did cob think this was to. He admittod that children and larrikins must bo a source of groat annoyance to the Tram Company. liethought if the lair allowod, and had tho boy not been of snoh a nervous temperament, not much harm would haro boou dono, as there was nothing brutal about it ; but it T»aa contrary to law, and he fluod London Is and Ennson sb, with costs .£3 le.
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Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 14 March 1890, Page 2
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171Charge of 111-treating a Child. Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 61, 14 March 1890, Page 2
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