WIDOW SENT TO GAOL.
-t | shooing Cruelty. THREE STARVING CHILDREN. "Times"—"Sydney Sun" Special Cable. (Received February 21, 8.30 a.m.) . LONDON; February 20. As the result of a charge laid by the Society for thfe-Protection of Children, a widow, who is a charwoman, was sentenced to six,months' imprisonment. She occupied a stinking, dark, and fireless room in Clerkenwell, with three poorly-clothed and starving children, bordering on idiocy, whom she fed on broken victuals which she took home. The magistrate described the case as one |>f mediaeval barbarity.
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Sun (Christchurch), Volume 1, Issue 14, 21 February 1914, Page 7
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