CRUELTY TO A SERVANT.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13096, 3 May 1911, Page 3

CRUELTY TO A SERVANT.

THE WORCESTER CASE,

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(Received May 3, 1.10 a.m.) London, May 2. Mrs Wilesmith and her bailiff were each sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour on the cruelty charge. Mrs Wilosmith's son was bound over under the First Offenders Act.

Mrs Wilesmith was a prominent Christian Scientist and Salvation Army worker of Worcester. With her son and her bailiff she was charged with terribly ill-treating a servant girl aged 13. who alleged that thoy mercilessly beat her and afterwards salted her wounds. She has 34 permanent scars, many four inches long. The girl came from an orphanage when seven years old and was made a household drudge.