CRUELTY TO GIRLS.
PUBLIC INDIGNATION.
SOLICITOR'S WIFE SENT TO
GAOL.
By IW«!tra-pb.~-Pre»# AM<Mrt»UiHi.>—
(R«oeiT»d Jjtnaarr 13. 16.33 p.m.)
London, January 13. Tbs wife of Mr. Charles Ilushwortb, a solicitor, of York, has been sentenced to nine months' imprisonment for cruelty to, and shocking neglect of. two adopted girls, U and 13 years of age. Both were drudges in housework, and one perished by burning her flesh with a hot iron.
The prisoner';.; husband, who is secretary to the York Education Committee, was fined £50 for failing to become acquainted with the condition of the children.
The ease has aroused intense popular feeling.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLV, Issue 13646, 14 January 1908, Page 5
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