Show A REVOLTING CRIME A drunken father pours boiling water over bis child NEV sept 18 one of tha most revolting cases of cruelty to children and at the same time worst examples of drunkenness and depravity in the police records was brought to light in this city today to day owen heferon He neron a hod carner was ar created for assaulting hia daughter mary jane agod twelve besides abo father and mother there are three children in the family mary jane john aged seven and julia aged eleven hefferon Hof feron had a leg broken several weeks ao while at work and his employer continued his wages tho greater part of the money waa spent in drink between 10 a m and p m today the girl brought in sixteen pints of mixed ale during the afternoon hefferon got ugly and when his wife said something to him he struck her blackening her eye his daughter mary jane interfered and the ruffian seizing her by the hair dragged her across the room and threw her down on the front of the stove Holding her by one hand with the other ho siezer a kettle full of boiling water and began to pour it on her body the girl screamed but the brutal father emptied every drop of boiling water in the kettle upon her before he stopped aser cries brought up the other tenants who when they saw what the fiend had done called a policeman and had him arrested the mother sat stupidly looking on at her daughter being scalded never interfering ter fering to save her the girl is so badly bahmed that her recovery is doubtful an agent of tho childrens society and two policemen had to break in the door to get possession of the remaining children the mother was lying drunk on the floor on a mass of filth and rags which served as a bed the infant sickly looking and suffering terrible from neglect was being rocked in a broken cradle by tho seven year old boy this boy is an imbecile he was taken charge of by the society infant was left with its mother for the night |