A BRUTAL MOTHER.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XXXVI, Issue 10480, 16 October 1912, Page 8

A BRUTAL MOTHER.

Per Press Association. Christchurch, October Jo. At the Court to-day, Mary Elizabeth Hale was charged with illtreating her live-year-old illegitimate child—a boy. Evidence was given that Hale thrashed the boy unmercifully, and one day threw him out on the asphalt. On another occasion accused whipped him and knocked him about for twenty minutes in a wash-house. Accused was also-alleged to have punished the boy with a broom, and that she knocked him down and kicked him. Accused, in evidence, denied having punished the boy harshly or with a broom, and said she had never made bruises on him. Mr Bishop, S.M., lined the accused £5 and costs, giving her a month in which to pay. Afterwards accused exclaimed dramatically she could not pay the fine in four weeks, and alleged that one woman witness had mined her life.