LEGAL TORTURE.
A ease has occurred in Birmingham (says the Labor Leader) harsh enough lo 1 make us dispair of humanity. Margaret ( Wright, a widow, was summoned for not, rending her child, aged eleven years, to school. The woman has four children. She has to bo at work at 8 a.m., and so cannot see her children off to school. The children have to look after themselves, with the result that the oldest plays the truant. The mother for wages gets seven shillings per week, which is augumentod by throe shillings from the parish. The rent is .'ls per week, heaving liae persons lo live on seven shillings a wedi. The) poor woman, undefended, was lined ten j shillings, or fourteen days’. hard labor,” ( being penniless, she was removed heart-* broken to the cell. Next morning a missionary who happened to be in court visited the “ homo ” and found the four poor mites in bod in the deserted house, without a scrap of food, lie then re turned and pa d the line, and so restored the mother to her homo. The continual 1 heaping up of punishment for the sin of j poverty upon the weak and unfortunate j will surely raise a blush vvhor<? it fails to I msv action,
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Patea Mail, Volume VIII, Issue 115, 25 September 1895, Page 2
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