Show frat saturday ai y bwy 31 A BRUTE A father fearfully maltreats Mal treats ails tan acar old boj Last evening between the hours of nine and ten tho inhabitants of ath street startled by hearing the screams of a child and several of the neighbors lushing to the residence of one named W S lewis discovered that the screams emanated from his house upon looking into the window a fearful sight presented itself to of them lying upon the floor naked was a little fellow and over him stood tho burly form of bai inhuman parent this sabio lewis who cano in hand M as showering blows upon the quivering body of the unfortunate little chap fhe agonizing cries of tho poor boy were too much for the spectators fathers and mothers of the neighborhood and a demand was made that lewis desist tho brutal father defied them to enter his house intimating that firearms fire arms would be used upon any who attempted to enter however this did not deter one brave woman a mother of several children who gained an entrance into the bouse and bearded the fellow in bis own dwelling this good woman was soon reinforced by other lady residents of the vicinity upon their arrival he brutal parent suddenly blew out the lamp and taking up the the boy fled with him men women and children immediately started in quest of him through the lot but were unsuccessful in their search but sheriff brown started out in another direction and found lewis in bed in a house on fifth street the lad he had beaten so cruelly being with nim at this time a crowd of indi gnant citizens arrived who were disposed to drag the man out of bed to tho lockup lock up however the wise counsel of mr brown prevailed and it was determined to eave the barbarous parent until this morning that a complaint might be made against him in a lawful manner the mother delivered tho little fellow up to officer brown who took him to his house on tho bench where he slept with none to molest or make him afraid this morning a JUNCTION representative senta tive saw the boy in company with officer brown the lad accompanied our reporter and several friends into carroll fe becs stables and exposed hy lacerated body to their gaze the little fellows back was one mass of red gashes where the cruel cane had decender dec ended upon it in some places cutting through the flesh and bringing the blood the little chap staled that he had been out fishing for minnows and on his return ing at dark was seized upon by Lewi sand treated in the manner above stated the lad this morning took his way with mr brown appeared before the buting attorney a writ was issued and served by officer alma keyes who arrested the inhuman parent this man lewis who is in the employ of sidney we understand been in the habit of not only ill frealing bis children but of most cruelly beating and otherwise abusing his wife the neighbors have become tired of it and determined to have a stop put to it and we will state for tho benefit of this brutal individual that had those irate lady neighbors of his managed to get hold of him last night he would not have been in as good a condition to appear before uis honor justice as he was today to day W S lewis action was a brutal one and ha should receive the full penalty of the law in such cases lewis was brought up before ju tice middleton on his pleading not gurlly the trial was set for tuesday morning at |