BEATEN WITH WHIPSTOCK.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19827, 23 December 1927, Page 14

BEATEN WITH WHIPSTOCK.

" CRIME " OF TRESPASSING. SQUIRE'S DAUGHTER IN COURT. At Linton, Cambridgeshire, recently, Miss Dorecn Long, of r J'lie Place, Balshani, was summoned for assaulting Catherine Daniels, aged 14, the eldest of six children, whom, it was alleged, she had punished for trespassing, by hitting them with the stock of a whip> The children, aged 14 to four, were brothers and sisters, and, it was stated, they had gone to a field to search for walnuts. It was alleged that Miss Long, the daughter of the squire, to whom tho field belonged, and by whom tliA children's father was employed, had called them to the house, and, giving them the choice between a whipping and a summons, had chastised them with a whipstoek. Tho mother stated that tho children complained of having been beaten, and she found they were badly bruised. Inspector Cook, of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children, said all tho children were bruised. Catherine had a bruised hand and a swollen thumb. Miss Long said the mother had given her permission to "rap" the children, but this the mother denied. Tho chairman said it was obvious that Miss Long had taken the law into her own hands, and she might think herself lucky that summonses had not been taken out in respect of all the children. She was bound over for 12 months, and was ordered to pay the costs.