Show BOY OY IS BRANDED Ta BY OWN FATHER IIIi E Pleads for Leniency i f for Parent Accused of Brutality a MILWAUKEE Sept 22 UP W-Ad- W Ad Admitting muting I authorities said he branded his year old son with a red hot him of stealing steal soldering iron to break ing inc Fred E Ernsting 42 was arrested and Is held in jail here I I did it for lor the thc boys boy's own good Ernsting told the thc district attorney Authorities said the boy told them he had been scarred because he had stolen 25 cents from his liiS m mothers mother's purse to attend a movie District Attorney William A A. A Zabel said the thc boy Wayne who related d dhow how his father had locked him in inthe inthe the bathroom while white he heated the therron fron fion over a kitchen stove begged that His s fath father f not b be jailed I wont won't steal any more Wayne said Ill be a good boy I dont don't want ft tb see lather father go to jaiL He He- wont won't do doit doit doit it again Hc's He's a good man Wayne a. a added ded his six brothers and sisters alSo Riso loved their father Zabel was so moved he said by the lads lad's pled plea he instructed his assistant to for lor leniency when the case of Ernsting f Ernst rig who Is Js unemployed is tried |