Case 3628

Mrs. is a thoroughly respectable woman, but for years past has been dragged down by a drinking Husband who has a vile temper besides. He has been at times personally cruel to her & the [?] state of one child & [?] of another are probably due to his ill treatment of the mother. Once he attempted suicide by trying to throw himself out of window. His language is abominable & he persuaded one son to join him in drink for a time. In other ways the man is fairly educated & somewhat superior in manner & appearance, 4 weeks since he tried to cut his wife & throat, but the grown up son happened to come in & the woman sustained but slight bodily injury but will be long before she recovers the nervous shock. He was tried at the Old Bailey, sentenced to 3 years imprisonment. The wife does not mean to live with him again.

The cripple girl has returned from Parish Infirmary & is a great comfort to her mother, one little girl A., has a difficult temper & is more than she can manage, in her present weak state - it would be the greatest comfort to her & material & spiritual benefir to the child if she could be put under sound kind discipline for some two years.

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Sister Superior
[?] St J Baptist.
S. John's Mission
Smith [Sqr]
Westminster