Show DRUNKEN FATHER HOLDS STOVE inhuman torture of delicate boy by inebriated parent pours hot water over him philadelphia back arms and chest covered with burns it is probable that young robert costello will die as the result of the brutal treatment inflicted upon turn by his drunken father john costello tie inebriated parent held the boy against a hot stove until the shrieks attracted the attention of a po who turned faint at the odor of b arnt flesh that greeted his nostrils when he broke into the house robert the eldest child is 16 years old ard although a delicate boy has been his best to help his mother by working the mother had gone to work rhen costello got up the other morning he was enraged because he could not find his shoes and cuffed and choken several of the in their aright they told him robert had the sl oes and costello chased his son into the kitchen knocking him against a hot range and then pouring a kettle of hot water over him not content with that the father pickel up his son and held him against the stove kicking and striking him HELD THE BOY AGAINST THE HOT STOVE the ani declaring anat he would hill before he could carry the threat into execution policeman harmon arrived |