The Dorset County Express and Agricultural Gazette.
Dorchester, Dorset, England, 1873-08-12 00:00:00

CRUELTY TO CHILDREN.

WiIINJI and BlizabetA Bartlett, husband and wife,
who did not not appear, were aemmoned for 1114reating
their children.

—ilarret-B:tlett, • girl of 12, sad that the woman
was her suip-inother. There were live brothers and
sisters inolading herself. They were not all happy as
home, not having enough food to eat era proper plow
to sleep in J they bed to la upon bags of straw (as
genet. 'The age of the youngest child were between
four and live .are. Witams, her sister Liraie and
Tommy slept is the lame room. Om of her brothers
had run away from home. Baldest Mod wee not
glees them. All Vie, had to eat in • day was
• slit*/ of bread for eseh ineaL Her step-mother
would not give them more. They were often very
hungry indeed. She hod ma away from borne because
her step-mother had beaten her with throe doable canes
and a withey, and all for nothing. Her step-mother
used to strip them, look their sloth.* away, and mad
them up to the garret; this had bees often done both
I. the winter and rammer. She was very cold daring
the winter when she had been thus served. The little
baby had been served in the same manor. Her step-
mother had served than so often, but it was only whoa
she wee drunk. She sad all the other children had rue
away from hcme In masequenee of the treatment LIM
had received, sleepier in open yards sad obtaining their
food by begging. Their father only mod to best them
now and then. When she left home she got over a
well and went to Mr. Rendalra, In High-street, where
she had obtained bar food by nursing a baby. Ha
step-mother never used to yeah them, bat whoa she
(witness) went to Mrs. Rendall's she bed her hair oat,
MMUS* her heed was so filthy. The strew they had to
sleep on was full of vermin.
Thomas Bartlett, said to be 10 years of age, said that
his step-mother used to beat him with. plea of rope three
dada double!, and often that him ep In a roost. Last
That...lay be and his !Idle sister were leaked up with
ao otothes on. as soon as be Mud hie mother go out
of the home he got what clothe' he mold and then left.
He slept for three nights In an open boat la Mr. Mead's
yard. Mrs. Randall, of St. Thomas-street, had gives
him his food. The ream why he and ha sisters had
left home, was became they were m iLI-asseed by their
step-mother. He on.. stole NOW cods and bad been
seat to prison, hot his mother put them upstairs with-
out eakW where be got than.
William George Bartlett, • lad of about 14 years of
age, mid he had ran away from home some flve years
ago because his step-mother kept on warming him,.
and would not give him any food. His father did not
111-treat him • it wee his stepmother. • she wee always
horn,
drunk. Baas he had left he had been tritveUlag
with Anise until he fell rick at Lumbers's Owdle, sad
they left him on the roadside. When he was able to
get Mott he walked home, but on his ping into the I
house hie amerneUser kicked him out. Whoa his father '
was there he went again, and his father said he ahoald
ramie there, but as soon as be (the father) wait to
work his step-mother kkted him oat of doers again. I
He had since been working for Mr. Denning sad *dug
at Mrs. Maggeridge's in Bigh-strea.
Janke& KAMMI sold elm lived in Higharset. net
Olaf girl bad bees surdas her baby. When she list I
ease abe had seem* any sloths, and she (edam)
pre her a frock and some ooderidething. Whet she
had oa before was full of vermia, la faethar back was
quite sore from them. The father wee always la work.
When she had clothed the Mild she asked het hitter
not to beat her again, sod he promised sot to do so.
Os Friday week however, the step-mother took off the
girl's boots and stockings and imbed her up, bat she I
sempod by kiting • mil sad taking shelter in her
(whams's) home. She refused to go beam saying that
bee tether would beat her ea. She (altars) went and
asked him not to do so, wheel's, said he meld give lur
a good roping. sad the women also said she should have
It. The girl had not been base 0f..,, as she had kept
her et her own holies.
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The Rey. V. Ransoms said that about a mouth ago,
ha, moompanied by P.C. •paey, went to the defendant's
house sad demanded to me Hie ohildrsa. The littlest
000 L•mte, they found abut too room upetAirs with
only one garment on, and her body Week and blue with
kilns. There was nothing but some straw for the
child to sleep upon. and It had been gnawing a °ebbs's)
stamp. Tlte atep-mother WY then in tut intonkoted
state. He had often remonstrated with both of the
defendants about their trestotaat to tie slaking, but
the only result was that the man woald Mat his wife.
He bad had the Whim at hie school, but they had
been taken away. He had reseived letten from all
parts of the town complaining about the state of the
al/drea.

."--Readall, of St. Thomas-street, said that abs
had nearly kept "Little Tommy" with food sad
'Nothing for the lad foar ywu. It was through her
reprosesbatkaa that lb. visited the della
daat's house at the time he had amstiosed. She had
semi Mae glrle mat out in the depth of winter with °sly
two tido earnests ou.
Supt. Plater, stated that the shildren had alma been
brought to the statism by the polio', haring been lotted
sleeping In tut-hoease. On ono ocouloa lb. yoengeet
*Mid had been found 'cheep at night, o.az Upwey.
P.C. Amoy eorroborated the Rev. V. ELMOOIIIII.II
wridasee.

Sept. Viokary stated that although two al the
&Ursa had sot ben hose dose Tburwiay, oelshar of
doloodaabs had made say Woolrks about this.
The Itayor wad this was 000 of the most dant:sodas
some he had weer beard, as the treottosat ol the ohtldrea
led be.. of the most brutal *hamster. He should
order both tits hosband and lb. wife to ho moat to Dor-
°hooter gaol let three °tooth.' herd labor, and for the
ohlktren to be taken sore of at the Unica.
THOUIDAT. —Wore Dr. J. Drew.

iilitsesa--ilo—e;;;;-e7s;:t1;;;;. farmer from the
neishhoushood of Orawkerse, wee *Urged with
sm lin nibs. of tobsoett
WtlUem Wee Godfity saki he was the Cuaterns
examining dicer at this put Bose alter the Brighton
same in last slab' from the Chasms' lalanda, he
examined defendant's Innings, making bum if he had
anything lithie to duty. He produeed jb. et taboos*,
end • small bottle of part amid aptrils. H. mad that
was all he had, but op !waylay his portmanteau' he
head four ether quarten of sounds, end from bin
penes took two more ',Nikons!' of tobeooo and • hottle
of perfumed 'Oita. The dents vales and ditty cm the
bamboo trad 13.. 61.

Dr, Drew said that ths law gave magistrates a di..
gledcwiry power In rush amass se tibias, to has •
Crln either the slash% double, or treble Tab. of
y. Ha caaaidarad that Um dsfoodant, ososiCurieg
lids poslidoo, had Waived in • mast disgraceful leaner,
and la should he him in the treble vales and duty ef
tha tabaoas, and rotor In all