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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:
THEY KEPT HIM SHUT IN A
ROOM FOR TWO YEARS
Parents Sent To Prison For Cruelty
SHUT up for two years in a room, a 16-year-old New- port (Monmouthshire) boy, when found by the authori- ties, had
Hair that reached to his shoulders;
A face the "colour of wax";
Bleeding feet, and
Shoes that were so small that his soles protruded over
the bottom of them.
Sentence of three months' imprisonment, each with hard labour, was passed on the parents, Gladys Buck, a fortune-teller, and William Buck, a boatman, for ill-treating and neglecting the boy, William.
Describing the case as "most un-sald. "He was in a terrible condi natural and most dumnable," Mr. D. tion, although he appeared to be well W. Evans, the prosecuting solicitor, nourished." said:
"This woman, for reasons best known to herself, devided that the outside world should not see the boy. and he was to be confined in a parti- cular room or house for an Indefinite period."
"CONE TO SEA"
The prosecution's theory was that she intended to make use of the boy in connection with her fortune- telling business,
An inspector of the N.S.P.C.C. who alled at the house was told on numerous occasions that the was out looking for work or had gone boy
to sea.
the last occasion, however, William Buck said to his wife: "Tell them the truth. He is Upstals. ́ite has not been out for two years. Take the gentlemen up to see him."
The woman tried to stop the in- spector and a police sergeant from going upators. She took up a chair and tried to aim blows at them.
A warrant was obtained and when the inspector and sergeant returned to the house the woman violently ns- saulted them.
"IN DARKNESS"
"The room in which the boy was found was in darkness," Mr. Evans
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woman struck him with a chair and Police-Sergeant Bale sald that the frustrated every effort he made to persuade the boy to leave the room. The man was frightened of his wife..
Inspector Richard Jones, of the N.S.F.C.C., Raid the woman did not there for two years. The father sald deny that the boy. had been kept the boy had done une week's work since he left school.
is all lies. I have got five children!
The mother said, in evidence: "It und I have never had a complaint tidy and well nourished and very from the school. They pre always good scholars."
"ATE ALL DAY"
The boy, she added, ate all day. He had access to the pantry and could eat as much he wanted.
"I begged him to go out and so did his father," she said, "but he would not. Once when 1 tried to cut his hair he said he would lock himself in the bedroom.
"He is a bit too big for me to handle and that was the trouble."
The boy was inter taken to Wools-
for Finance, with whom the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Kerr RECENT PHOTOGRAPH of Dr. H. H. Kung, China's Minister
Clark Kerr, conferred during the week-end.
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ton House, Newport, which is con- being sent to New York to be shown casket has been designed for its frolled by the Public Assistance Com- in the British Pavilion at the World transport from Lincoln Cathedral to mittee, where he is to be cared for. Fair has been valued at £100,000 for avoid it suffering any damage.
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