Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1894 — Terrible Cruelty. [ARTICLE]

Terrible Cruelty.

A case of fiendish cruelty has been discovered at Bellefonte. Pa., and Milton Harman and his wife are now in the county jail. They are charged with inhumanly beating the latter’s 10-year-old child. The bov was found lying in a bedroom with bread just out of roach. He had been starved and beaten times without number, and his emaciated little form was covered with bruises, sores, cuts and burns. Part of his upper lip had been torn away by the father. His arms and chest were covered with cuts, which had been inflicted with a butcher knife. Across the abdomen was a horrible burn which the father had made with a red-hot poker. One ear had been lopped off with a corn-cutter, dipped in tar and then stuck back on the head. The boy had been deprived of food so long that he had gEawed his finger ends to the second joints. He is a hopeless cripple. One of his legs was broken several years ago and, as his mother denied him medical attendance, the fracture was never reduced. The child was completely covered with filth, and the police who found him were amazed and horrified at the sight.