"POISONOUS LITTLE BOY"
"You are a poisonous little boy," remarked Sheriff Leslie at a Scottish Juvenile Court when a 13-year-old Kilsyth boy admitted having ill-treated a cat by nutting a knitting needle through its head.'J'he animal had to be destroyed.
"I thrashed him so much that he was in bed for two days," the boy's mother told the sheriff. "1 did not spare him when I heard about it." The boy was put oil probation for 12 months.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23205, 26 November 1938, Page 2 (Supplement)
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