NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

Lyttelton Times, Volume CV, Issue 12428, 18 February 1901, Page 3

NEGLECTED CHILDREN.

COMMITTED TO BURNHAM. At the. Magistrate's Court on Saturday, before Mr H\ W. Bishop, S.M., three emaciated little mites, nam?d Rose Mary •'Brown, nine years and eleven months of age, William Paul Brown, seven years and eight months, and Lillie -Nora Brown, four years and six months, were charged with bi'vag neglected children. Sergeant Burke stared that he had found 'the children at a home in Rodgers Street on Feb. 5. The children were by themif Ives, ind were outside in the yard. They tol'l the' witness that their father had left fC'd for them in ''the shed, but they had eaten it. At the time- of his visit, the children were not hungry. At 8 p.m. on ■. .-Feb.' 6, - when the witness again visited the .place, tho 'father returned, drunk, and the gir! searched his pecket, found the key, and opssed the. door. On Feb. 7, at 11 a.m., witness, found Mis Brawn at home. Shestated that on Feb. 2 ]n>r 'husband had come home drunk, and had turned out herself and her elder daughter, over fourteen years of age. They wont to a.' neighbour's -place and stayed there. On two occasions Brown had, to witness's knowledge, gone home drunk. Neighbours gave evidence to ■ -rLe- effect that (ho children, had been seen gf.ing t«> hptels at night. The children were get'-Fally "left at home by themselves. Brown went into the witness-box, and i-tated th.it he -iias a labourer, and had five children. There was one girl at .Owerrham. and another one was at'home. "His average naming* were -30 s <t< week. -Hi- wife was kinrl to- her children,' in many •• wa'va. supplying them with plenty of food,--,'and- buying them lollies, and dolls, and' air wit', but .«l'p was ncrlertfuf in other ways,' ■ • ciVlnej ui> a Int of her time to wading -"' '. p.':v»i.-. He denied that the little boy had' bi'en nllowfd to beg at fh" Park prates.' The-Magistrate ordered that tbei children 1 should be «ent to the Industrial School, thf fathe.r to pay 2s 6d a week each to-n-aids I heir support. Another mrl. named Eveline Ticehurst, alia', it w,is at leered, was living ,\:-hh a per>rn reputed (-> b: a prostitute. - Tim ehi'd was h?-niigh;t before the Magis- ■ -rate as being a neglected child. She is 3 bright and IntellisreTit-looking girl,"about six rears of ago. She was -well dressed. had rcy cheeks, a.nd presented a. healthy ' appearand, as if she had been very well - ■ ferl and attended to. 1 Defective Liv'ngstmv defail°d the oir««i,nl«'mr»< under vi "'.h hf had found the . ■!.!>! in ~ ljr.ii-f- i-i Kilmers Street. Ther" „„-,- n» •' u!ii .i'."Mt ih° cbirar'ier of the . I"i7r=. Tr- ir- Mi-'r of thf fMI I ill >urt that she had not seen the child since it.was about three months of age. It. had S»en living with the woman Skinner, but iid not bp?n legacy adopted. 'The child kpc committed to che IndusbaaT-School,.