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Show BKANTLY Ut Kt..' r . . - The Traalastiat Two Children Kcmived f rom Tlislr laruU. iif.. IUnuoicMo., May 14. A shocking ease of el Id tovtnre is reported from Oldtowii.Y-doiwK-- up tho river. Fred Sawye awl- wti', with two little daughters, 8 and 10 years, lived in A little white frame house in the outskirts ofOltllowli village. Saw eyr himself Is not regarded as a particularly vicious man, but his wife is a veritable, fiend. It haa long been known by the neighbors that the little girls were not well treated, but last week it was learned that they were subjected almost al-most daily to shocking abnso.lluiehlest, Mylle, being especially maltreated. Several personal declared . that they had seen the stepmother take Myrtle hy I he hair, pull it from the head iu haudfuls and th'ii throw her violently to the ground, while others have seen Ihe unnatural un-natural woman strike the child across the face with a club with such force as to make her unconscious. Saturday night a mob surrounded the Sawyer house with the expectation of capturing It i in and his wife. They were too late; the couple having got wind of what was going on, skipped from Bangor, leaving the children behind. The oldest child presented a pitiful i appearance, ner irau nine oouy oenm covered with cuts, sores and bruises from head to foot. Her left wrist, was broken and her arm fractured, w hile the bridge of her nose was mashed in as though hv a blow- from a club. It was found that her wrist and arm had been broken six weeks before by the stepmother step-mother throwing the child heavily to the ground and (hen kicking . her. No attention was paid to the child's HiifferiiiKs, the savage stepmother step-mother threatening her Willi instant death if she did not slop crying, cry-ing, ami. moreover, the helpless victim was told that she would certainly be killed if she comiilaiuetl to any one of her treatment. Not content with this, j the tigress actually sank her teeth re-ti re-ti 'aieilly into the arms and Imily of the victim." The girl's clothing Iieeame glued to her clolliiiKf with clots of blood, and the physician who was called was obliged to use warm water to remove her garments. |