MAN SENT TO GAOL
CRUELTY TO CHILD ' -l^Two months' imprisonment wai tbe_pun- . 7 ishment meted out by Mr. B. Page, S.M., ":V to Clarence Woods, a\carpenter, who plead- ■"■'■■ ed guilty in the Magistrate's Court to-day,' * ' to ill-treating a five-year-old boy.- '. .■',"• ' Sub-Inspector Lander said that Con* ■• stable Isbister found the child in the Botanical Gardens early on a recent.morn* .... ing. The child was'badly bruited and ."..•>. poorly clad, and said that Wood* had kept . ,„ him out all night. Dr. Ada '.• Patenon .^ later examined the child and found him to be bruised from head to foot. He said '-■■" that "daddy had given him a thrashing and sent him out into the park." ■■"■'. :- The Sub-Inspector added that the child had since been committed to the care ..of" ■•■■.. the State. Woods had made a sUtement in which he admitted causing some of th« bruises as the child had been stealing things about the Bouse. "The mother i« r divorced from the father of the child and has been living with Woods for some ;,'. time," said the Sub-Inspector. "It would appear that Woods has taken »n antipathy to this child." \ -. ■' "Your treatment of the child seems to -- have been exceedingly cruel," said Mr. E . •;. Page, S.M., to Woods. He sentenced the accused to two months' imprisonment.' •••
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Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 8
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210MAN SENT TO GAOL Evening Post, Volume CV, Issue 22, 27 January 1928, Page 8
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