CRUELTY TO A CHILD.
A SHOCKING CASE. By Telegraph—Press Association. Christehurch, Last Night. At the Magistrate's Court to-day Mary Elizabeth Hale was charged with ilitreating her five-year-old illegitimate child, a boy. Evidence was given that Hale thrashed the boy unmercifully, and one day threw him out on to the asphalt. On another occasion accused whipped him and knocked him about for twenty minutes in the washhouse. Accused was also alleged to have punished him with a broom, and he was also knocked down and kicked. Accused, in evidence, denied having punished the boy harshly or with a broom, and said that tihe never made the bruises on him. Mr. Bishop, S.M., fined accused ,£5 and costs, giving her a month in -which to pay. Afterwards 'accused exclaimed, dramatically, that she could not pay the fine in four weeks, and alleged that one woman, witness had ruined her life.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 8
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148CRUELTY TO A CHILD. Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 127, 16 October 1912, Page 8
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