FINE WOMAN FOR SLAPPING CHILDREN
Item
- Title
- FINE WOMAN FOR SLAPPING CHILDREN
- Source
- Evening Journal (DE)
- Date
- 7/26/20
- page
- 3
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn85042354/1920-07-26/ed-1/?sp=3&q=assault&r=0.367,0.256,0.372,0.224,0
- Crime
- Assault
- Subject
- criminal assault, children
- Gender of alleged offender
- female allged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- male alleged victims
- Stage of the Legal System
- Fined
- Location
- In state, Wilmington DE
- Length of story
- 77
- Description
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FINE WOMAN FOR SLAPPING CHILDREN
Offering no defense, Mrs. Margaret Hans, of Baltimore was fined $4 and costs in Magistrate N. B. Register’s court at Lewes on Saturday on a charge of assault and battery, on two children at Rehoboth. The charge was preferred by Chester H. Wells, State Health Commissioner who was a witness at the hearing. Mrs. Hans pleaded guilty to the charge. It was charged Mrs. Hans had shaken and struck two small children.
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