CHARGE OF INHUMANITY

New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVI, Issue 8296, 6 December 1912, Page 1

CHARGE OF INHUMANITY

MOTHER AND INFANT DEPRIVED OF BEDCLOTHES. , . ' LONDON, October 23. Allegations of almost incredible in humanity and brutality ajjainst a land lord’s agent were made at the Westm’n star Police, Court on Saturday. In an obviously weak condition a young woman —prosecutrix in a case of bigamy at the court in June last—applied to Mr Horace Smith for advice. She stated that the man who deceived her, now undergoing a term of imprisonment for his offence, left her in lodgings at Upcerne road, Chelsea, without means, with a little girl to keep and the early expectation of again becoming a mother. She had no means to pay the landlord, and she alleged that a person, on his behalf invaded her room two days after her confinement, stripped the clothes from the bed on which she was lying and the shawl from her newly-born baby, at the • same time flinging at her a printed second notice to quit. The man almost palled the baby out of bed, and a woman looking after her appealed to him to desist. Applicant fainted, and the doctor attending her considered that for weeks afterwards her life was in jeopardy. • Replying to‘questions from the magistrate, applicant said the incident occurred last August, but ever since that time until this week she had been an inmate of Chelsea Infirmary. She had nht been able to take the matter up before, so severe bad been her illness. She had a letter from the medical man who attended her. Dr T. Mackay Ross, certifying her earlier inability to take 'proceedings. Mr Horace Smith said he would certainly grant her a summons for assault, but she might be better advised to pro ceed in another way for compensation.