Extenuating Circumstances.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume V, Issue 650, 22 August 1891, Page 2

Extenuating Circumstances.

[TO THE EDITOH. | Sin,—lf it will not take up too much ot your space will you insert these few lines as to toy son Samuel, who was charged with the larceny of a cheque valued at a penny—a very serious offence, for which punishment was deserved. But if the parents of a child were allowed to give evidence in such oases it might make a great difference. My child, when five years old, one day (at Mr Hutchinson’s station) went out with a cat, telling his mother that he was going to kill wild dogs. Like hie lather; his mother paid no particular atteqthn jn whgt was Slid by the child, and the latter went out nn the run |n summer tim'l without any hat on, rhe resu’t of which was that he suffered a sunstroke, When I o»mc home in the evening he had not reeq I put a Spanish bloodhound on bp trail, by which means we found the boy, He wae jn q very had state,' and I brought him to town, whan Dr Rolleq attended to him, After that I left the boy at Srmond with my brother, so that be might go to school. While he was at Ormond he was vaccinated from a very weak child, a relation, Sb, if the public will look over these faw lines, they will see, as His Worship did, that the boy was not in good health and mind to be blamable for what under other circumstances must be considered a bad deed,—Thanking you for your kindness, I remain, etc., John Pabsoxs.