Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1913 — Cruet Form of Punishment. [ARTICLE]

Cruet Form of Punishment.

A species of punishment reminiscent of barbarism, was meted out a few days ago to a seven-year-old boy of Klyosu, Japan, by the child’s father. The little lad committed some trivial act of disobedience, and the father punished him by burying him for forty-eight hours in a hole in the ground, leaving only his head above the surface. . ■ > s