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Evening Star, Issue 7153, 5 March 1887, Page 2

An extraordinary miscarriage of justice has occurred in Shropshire (England), and is i likely to be brought under the notice of Parliament. Dr Henry C. Williams and his wifq,”who moved in respectable society, and ; were well connected, and so forth, had jflogged their daughter. .Gladys nearly to • death. The child, whibwas only six years old, had been negligent with her lesson —she could not spell 44 fox ’’—whereupon, after a dry'bredHunoheon i ,'Bho i waß”'token^nto^4he; nursery and flogged with a riding-whip by I her unnatural father-dpr hajtf-an-hour. Her screams were dreadful. After thirty minutes’ torture port wine was sent for, and then thS> flogging Was reeutfied. girl,. who, wfsa. much bruised, on the lower ’body/fainted awaYat the clbto of her punishment. The prosecution .was; conducted uijclsr mpny .jdifficplties, biirthe case was at last sent' to quarter sessions, | where' the jury”convicted the cruel parents ; i but a'oompaMioitate Bench merely impbSldi la (fine’ bf iLM I ihateadnof ; both the [fashionable prisoners to priibii' foraf