AN "INHUMAN MONSTER."

New Zealand Herald, Volume X, Issue 3623, 21 June 1873, Page 2 (Supplement)

AN "INHUMAN MONSTER."

"Use every man ufter his desert," Bays Hamlet " and who »hull 'scupu whipping?" and we say use William Nicholson the wife-beater, and by liia nio6C recently diabolical conduct inhuman monster, according to hia desert, and whip tho rascal until ho is made to uuderfitand what torture is. Our readers will romcmber thu very liuabaud-like conduct of this disgrace to mankind—how, when his wife was euceinte, he fchrufhed her u]uiorft lo death, and the sentence he received for that offence. The two months' imprisoment expired on Monday, and Nicholson first of all celebrated the release by getting three parts drunk. After this, he wended his way " home, 11 and finding that his wife was at her mother's (Mrs. Lowther), he adjourned thitherward. As might be expucted, he wns refused admittance, whereupon he expended the whole of his drunken volubility in abusing and threatening the inmates of the house. Not content with thin vile conduct, he took a young dog that wae a favourite pet of his children, and grasping it by tho hind legs, dashed itß brains out against a stump in front of tho house! Then slinging the mangled and bloody carcase over his shoulder, he exhibited with a devilish grin upon his face to those children who were wont to play with it, and who call him father, idis wife, who is within a few weoks of her confinement, was greatly frightened, and it may lead to dangerous results. Nicholson is now in cubtody, and will be proceeded against to-mor-row, in order that he may be bound ■ over to keep tho peace j and we hope there may be I found some penal clause which will ensure his punishment for the wanton and cruel destruction of the dog.—Mdhourne Telegraph, May 26.