SHOCKING CRUELTY TO A CHILD
... At the Blackburn Police-court, before Mr. James Johnston, Mr. Wm. Stones, and Mr. W. Codrington, William and Harriet Thompson, man and wife, were charged with cruelly ill-treating a boy, 9 years of age, named William Henry Dixbury, son of the female by her first husband, by fastening-him down in a wicker skep for several hours on Saturday last. From the evidence, it seemed that each of the ...