Wednesday,
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
THEY KEPT
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 tics, 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-said. "He was in a terrible condi natural and most damnable." Mr. D. tion, although he appeared to be well W. Evans, the prosecuting solicitor, nourished." sald
"This won, for reasons best known to herself, deckted that the outside world should not see the boy. and he was to be confined in a part- cular room or house for an indefnite 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 enlled at the house was told an numerous occasions that the boy
was out looking for work or had gone
to sen.
On the last occasion, however, William Buck said to his wife: "Tell them the truth. He is upstairs. He has not been cul for two yea
Tuke the gentlemen up to see
The woman tried to stop the in- spector and a police sergeant from going upstairs. She took up a chair and tried to nim blows at tiem,
A warrant was obtained and when the inspector and sergeant returned to the house the woman violently as- saulted them.
"IN DARKNESS"
"The room in which the boy was found was in darkness," Mr. Evans
Police-Sergeant Bale said that the woman struck him with a chair undi 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.P.C.C., said the woman did nolj there for two years. The father said deny that the boy hud been kept the boy had done one week's work! #hice he lett school.
The mother said, is evidence: "It is all lles. I have got five children and have never had a complaint tidy and well nourished and very from the school. They are always
good scholars."
"ATE ALL DAY"
The boy, she added, ale all day, He had access to the pantry and could cat much as he wanted.
"I begged him to go out and so did | his father," she said, "but he would not. Once when I tried to cut hini hair he said he would lock himself in the bedroom.
handle and that was the trouble."
"He is a bit too big for me to
The boy was later taken to Wools-
for Finance, with whom the British Ambassador, Sir Archibald Kerr Clark Kerr, conferred during the week-end.
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