Liverpool Weekly Courier. — 1893-10-07 (Liverpool, Merseyside, England)

SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A CHILD AT BOOTLE. A FATHER SENT To GAOL George Win. Banks and Margaret Bank., of 14, Delewere-ntreet, Bootle, wee suminoned before , the Bootle rnagistretes--Mewern. R. J. Glasgow ' end 1. A.Maok--yatterciay,for Causing woneeesnary suffering to their ohild, Henrietta Banks, aged 11 years. Mr. Farmer (town-clerk) prosecuted, and Mr. Maunder defended. I Mr. Farmer said the male defendant was the I father of the uhild, and the female her stepmother. The IsVlittflUe of the girl, Henrietta Banks, whose closely-out hair revealed a number of bruises on her head, was that on Saturday week her mother ill-bested her by norubbing bet heal roughly with • scrubbing Wilda She _ _ SUICIDES & ATTEMPTED SUICIDES meet 1011011 ahe stole from the house of. person in the unighboorhond. She .4, took Charlie Berriman, a seamen, 46 yearn of ago, a girls dinner at Salislury•road consequence of being hungry. For these nets she was lucked who lodged at 47, St. James-place, wee found hanging from a beam in a ate ble at the rear of the up in a dark cellar by kid father. On Sunday week premises on Tuesday. A bottle oontaining oar last the father heat her on the face and gave her. bolie acid was found lienide hire, sad bp, bp. black eye. The following Tueedity her stepmother wore burns it was evident that Ms bad taken seme shook her by the clothe* and bengal her head . of the Berriman wen steedy man, but ne against the wall, and when cutting her heir she had been ill, and only a fortnight ago he cam& out bruised her forehead with the scissor.. olib day a of the Sunthern ftonpltsl where hb had nail in her boot wan hurting phi to her foot, andd shnoe 00r11two montha a both defendants. They woult re. Archibald Adie, 45, a retired publican, lumped move tin bout, and for several nights she went on Monday afternoon from riteHlgh Level Bridge to bed with it ou her foot. As • result at Geteshertd, end fell into a yard 100 feet below. her foot because no bail that she had to be taken Howse insensible when picked up and wet teken to au the hospitri, ahem she was found to be surfer. ttie Newcaetle Infirmary. Adie came from Cmbut laf ow anepootor William., of the Society for the Pew lang, neer Glasgow, and had been residing et Gateshead. •on of Cruelty to Children, said that in A remarkable suicide wee reported in D.. 141 on F y lest he mentioned the defendants or their treatment of the chi/d, Wednesday. A young man named Donnelly went and on neverai omissions niece that he had to the asylum for, the blind and demanded al- t he stepmother of her conduct. He mitten. to nee hi. sister, but was refused. He warned then eat on the di...ten, and taking from his bad fonn. bruise. on the child's body, mused by blows Ire • the father with a strap. The ohild was pocket • bottle containing poison, drank tho COO now in tie. Children'. Shelter, Islington. tents and died. ant in au et. A "oho° an "Let." d P.Pii'mwicber from he. Mr. Henry Smyth, a timber merchant tennis. way of business in Loudon. mefsmitted School wher. the girl bad en attending both amid suicide at Matlock on Tuesday by banging himself ' etre %offered . neatly from paint in her bead tad in hi. b.d",.. hid in hi.this an. net unlit for nor *ohm. work. She m fro this hatpegs quww."", o 7 had taken food longing to anottEs girl beosune poison. she was hungry. STRANGE 81110IDE FROM A CORK Dr. Sprakeding said he had found the °Mid's