A "VOLUNTARY CONFESSION."

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2660, 19 May 1908, Page 7

A "VOLUNTARY CONFESSION."

"Did I understand you to say that this hoy voluntarily confessed his share in the mischief done to the schoolhouse ?" asked the magistrate, addressing the mother, who held a small, dirty, struggling boy by the hand.

"Y'cs, sir," he did, replied the mot heir, jerking her offspring into momentary activity. "I had to persuade him a little, but he told me the whole thing voluntarily." "Hod did you persuade him?" asked the magistrate.

"Well, first T gave him a good whipping," said the determined-look-ing little woman, "and then 1 put liim to bed without any supper, and took his clothes away, and told him he'd stay in bed till he confessed what he'd done, if 'twas the rest of his d'ays, and I should whip him again in the morning. In less than an hour he told -me the whole story voluntarily." ; 1 •