Show DRUNKEN FATHER HOLDS miOT STOVE inhuman torture of delicate boy by inebriated parent pours hot water over him philadelphia bach arms and chest coverd 1 with burns it is probable that young robert costello will die as the result of the brutal treatment inflicted upon bim by his drunken father john costello a inebriated parent held the boy against a lot stove until shrieks attracted the attention of a po diceman who turned faint at the odor of barnt 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 coing his best to help his mother by working the mother had gone to work athen costello got up the other morning he was enraged because he could not find his shoes and cuffed and choken several of the children chil dhen in their aright they told him robert had the aloes sloes 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 up his son and held him against the stove kicking and striking him HELD THE BOY AGAINST THE HOT STOVE the alle an 1 declaring anat he would hill him before he could carry the threat into execution policeman mon arrived |