Mercur Miner | 1905-11-15 | Page 1 | Child Torture

Child Torture. The HrltUh .Vatic nn! Society for the Prevention f Cruelty to Children has a remnrknblo mukeum where, within n glass case, lit a collection or Implements of torture. Straps of eery description nro there, sticks, clubs nnd ropes, with tho knots still In them, thnt once huld childish wrlU fast. There arc also twlstod hooks, bamboo canes nod a chnlti with a pndlc.de by which an Imbecile child was for years fastened to a post. Hanging by itself la a strnw basket two feet long nnd n foot deep In which twins wcro found on a baby fnrm.