Rensselaer Union, Volume 2, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1870 — Inhuman Treatment of a Father by His Children. [ARTICLE]

Inhuman Treatment of a Father by His Children.

A rEATm*ae and shocking out of inhumanity has just occurred in the township of Windham. A man now hpward of eighty yean of ago,-and who'has sided ih that township for years, has ter s me time been dependent upon his children. ‘He had lived with ofie’ttfhl* dr ugh tors, two or -three of whom were married, for a time, and then would remain a short time with another daughter, and so on. A couple of months or so ago the old man had an altercation with some of the members of the family, whom We shall designate No. 1» end with whom he then resided. He left the residence of No. 1 after the altercation, and supposing that he he had gone to lire-with family No. 2, a few miles distant, No. 1 packed up his'clothes and took them to- the house of No. 2. No. 2, however, was apparently determined that he would no longer be bothered with the poor o|d man, trad would not allow the clothes to be left op the premises, and No. 1 therefore left them in charge of a neighbor. Soon afterward the old man arrived at No; 2’s, and was told that Ids clothes weje not there, nor could they tell him where they Were. He' then started for No. l’s, where he arrived so feeble that he was unable to walk ally farther. Daughter No. 1 then took” him jn a wagon to No. 2’s. How long he remained there' we cannot say, but finally daughter No. 8, who lived with No. 2, got him in a vehicle and took him to within a mile or two of No. l’s, setting him down upon the road, and telling him to get to a house near by. Instead, pf going to the house, however, he wandered into a piece of woods, and nothing more was seen or heard of him. for about seventeen days, when he was found Tying Insensible in the woods. When found, son-in-law No. I was apprised of the fact, but he refused to allow his team to be taken to convey him from the woods to the house, and also refused to go for a doctor 1 Some neighbors acted the part of good Samaritans, carried the old man to a house, and dispatched a messenger for a medical man. Around where The old man lay in the broods every twig And leaf Were eaten, and it Whs evident that these had been his only means of subsistence during the time he was in the woods. At. last accounts he was in a very weak and precarious condition.— London, Ont., Free Press, June 11.