The Fleming Case.

Wairarapa Standard, Volume XVIII, Issue 1688, 13 April 1885, Page 2

The Fleming Case.

It is difficult to understand how the inhuman brute Fleming came to be acquitted for subjecting his children to the most harsh and barbarous treatment. Perhaps the full report of the trial in the Supreme Court, Dunedin, when it comes to hand, will throw some light on this. The woman Carrie Fleming, the step-mother of the children Las, however, got her desserts by being sentenced to iin prisonment with hard labor, for two years. The suggestion by the woman's sound “that in flogging the children, she bad acted from an error of judgment only,” was altogether scouted by the learned Judge who tried the ease. On the contrary, his Honor told the prisoner ■'that she had been actuated by a cruel mind, and that the illtroatment which the children had received at her hands was altogether without justification.” Carrie Fleming will have ample time to realise during the next two years, that the inhuman torture of children is a grave offence, for which the law inflicts exemplary punishment.