LOCKED IN A BATHROOM.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18565, 24 November 1923, Page 11

LOCKED IN A BATHROOM.

ARMY HOME DISCIPLINE.

YOUNG WOMAN PUNISHED.

Some extraordinary methods of punishment adopted at the est :, v Brunswick Army Rescue Home were described in the Brunswick (Melbourne) Police Court last week. ; A young woman, Ellen Clendinnie, -was j charged with having wilfully broken windows and crockery valued at £1 belonging to the institution. £>>e admitted the charge. . . - lister Annie Adams, the matron, stated that on the previous V Sunday morning Clendinnie insisted on doing .some washing, which she placed on the line. This was strongly disallowed. . Witess took the clothing away. This Clendinnie resented, and she became refractory and very impudent. Consequently she was locked in a bathroom. When a meal was taken to her ?he smashed the cup and plates and threw them through the windows, which, of course, were also broken. She persisted in her refractory conduct, and the police were sent for. Clendinnie, said the matron, was admitted to the home by her consent for twelve mouths, and was due for release in January. .. / ~ , . Constable Ariell said, when called, he found Clendinnie had been locked in trie bathroom. She admitted , breaking i crockery because she was receiving i. enfc treatment from the others They should all be treated alike, she said. Ifcere was a bed in the bathroom, which was the only place to keep unruly inmates. _ The Magistrate: A very peculiar pl*» for an institution like this. .Dowuthmk that imprisoning a woman in bathroom for several days has a,(rood effect and la proper method of treatment? : jr x .Superintendent Evans: "That is the only P& they have for troublesome 'Xftr IXlrlfsL M, . frightful temper and gets into ungovernable passions and becomes v«ry troublesome. Ive had a talk with her this morning. She is agreeable to amend her, behaviour if. sent back to the home. L. Clendinnie subsequently consented to return'to th© home and was discharged.