TARRED AND FEATHERED

Manawatu Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 2310, 1 December 1925, Page 5

TARRED AND FEATHERED

FOSTER-FATHER’S METHODS. A ■ remarkable story of a fosterfather’s salutary lesson to a man to whose association with Shis adopted daughter he objected was told to the Derby Guardians. The girl was adopted some years ago by a man in a good position, not in Derby. It became known to him that plans had been made for her to elope, but when it came to the parting her courage failed, and she made a full confession.

The foster-father kept the appointment, thrashed, tarred, and feathered the man, and threw him into the street.

“Had lie not been a a trained pugilist, ” the foster-father's letter to the guardians stated, “h n could net have stood what I gave him.”

The girl was formerly in the Guardians’ care and emigrated to Australia. Correspondence showed that the girl had become associated with a pugilist whom her foster-parents considered undesirable. In his last letter to the Board, the Australian who had th e girl in his care said he saw th e police before ho took action, and did not hear of any complaint after the event. The man could not rise for four days after the treatment meted out' to him. The writer spoke in high terms of the girl, and said she now realised what she had escaped by the intervention of her foster parents. .