Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-11-13 00:00:00

THE CLERK'S SALARY.

A correspondence was read with reference to the clerk's
salary, and it was on the suggestion of the chairman that
the General Board's notice should be directed to the reso-
lution as to when Mr. Cleaver was appointed.
After some routine business tile board adjourned.

FRIGHTFUL CRUELTY TO A BOY, BY HIS
FATHER, IN STANLEY-STREET.

At the morning sittings, before Mr. Mansfield, at the
Police Court, yesterday, Police Officer 48G, John Watson,
brought up a fine sharp lad, named Jordan, aged 14, in
' order to obtain a warrant for the arrest of the boy's father,
under the following circumstances : —The poor little fellow
had a largo chain and heavy lock fastened on his left leg,
and the policem.,n said he had tried several means to get it
off, but to no purpose. The boy's legs and thighs score
terribly bruised, as were also his arras and a portion of
his face, and he said his father had beaten him with a
black thorn knobby stick, which left the marks on him.
From the statement of the boa-, Mr. Clough, aed the
poHce officer, it appeared that the boy's father is named
Isaac Jordan, and lives at 51, Stanley-street, and keeps
four ironmonger's shops in that street, and it was stated
that he has twenty houses in Everton. It further appeared
that, for a long timepae, he had been in the habit of treating
the boy very badly, and that on Saturday, for the etvegth
lime, he locked him, with the chain and lock now on his
leg, to a 561 b weight in a dark room. On Wednesday, by
the assistance of a servant girl, the lad was enabled to get
ono of his legs out of the chain, and he then got into the
street, and told some of the neighbours, and showed them
the way he had been beaten. [The bay's limbs presented an
awful appearance.] In reply to Mr. Mansfield, the lad
said he never gave his •father the least provocation
for his cruel conduct. One of his brothers had to
run away in consequence of his father's cruelty, and his
mother had to separate from his father for a like reason.
Mr. Mansfield : Have you ever stopped out at night, or
given him any offence by disobeying him? No, sir. Mr.
Mansfield wlerd if the boy was known to the police in any
way, when Mr. Clough, and Kr. Burton, the governor of
the brideweli, replied that he wan not known. Mr. Gar-.
nett (chief clerk) : Were you ever in bridewell, boy ?
Never, sir. Mr. Clough said he believed the boy was very
welt conducted. Mrs. Mary Duckworth, and Mrs. Jana
Atkins, respectable persons residing in Stanley-street,
stated that the bey was a quiet and well-conducted
lad, and that, for a berg time, hie father was in
the habit of treating him very badly, and chaining
him to a fifty six pound weight in a dark cold room. Teey
were in the habit of giving him food, and the servant girl
at his father's also brought him food when he was locked
up. When he got out of hie prison they resolved to tell
the police, and they accordingly called the officer and
informed him of the facts. In reply to Mr. Mansfield the
boy said when the chain was pulled it hurt him very much.
Mr. Clough said the boy toll him he wanted his father to
send him to school and give him come trade, but he would
not do so. The lad also told hire he would go to sea, if ha
could. Ms Worship ordered a summons for the father,
and he was summoned for Saturday. Mr Clough directed
the officer to break tha lock and get the chain off the boy's
leg, and after some time the lock was broken, and the
poor 'hie fellow was liberated from the chain. The case
created quite a sensation His Worship told the police to
take proper care of the boy for the present.