CORRESPONDENCE. Claring injustice.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13434, 22 July 1911, Page 3

CORRESPONDENCE.

Claring injustice.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, —Kindly permit mo to give vent to my contempt for the lI.M. who convicted the unfortunate girl, who abandoned her infant. Has he a sister or a daughter: Surely not. He must, like Topsy, have growed, but, sir, like a great many Yankee syndicates, have grown void of common consideration for their fellow creatures. Abandoned her child, sir Picture in your mind's eye the circumstance: not a neglected child, sir, not clothed in filthy rags, but cared for. and when left at the door of the almshouse watched by that girl mother til! s,h;> knew it was taken in to get that care she it's mother could no longer extend towards probably what was dearer to her than her life. Where is the want of care ? Where the crime ? Where is the clemency exercised i'oi* so small an offence? "Come up for sentence when called upon" was quite severe enough. No, sir, that girl was made a criminal for want of common-sense ; and I must add, for lack of common humanity. No wonder the Minister for Justice was shocked at such injustice. Long may hf live to see justice administered to the guiltv and consideration, if not sympathy., extended to the weak.—l am, etc., ATUMOHO.