John Hendrie (Kirkintilloch)

John Hendrie, Weaver

'ATROCIOUS CASE OF CRUELTY.
One of the worst cases of cruel and barbarous treatment, inflicted upon two poor boys by their employer, a Kirkintilloch weaver, we ever witnessed, was brought under our notice in tbe Glasgow police establishment, on Monday evening last. It consisted of the exhibition of the persons of two children, named Robert Maclaren and James Marshall, respectively aged about ten and eleven years, apprentices from the Canongate Poor's House, Edinburgh, who, for several months past, have been in the charge and employment of a heartless fellow, named John Hendrie, a weaver in Kirkintilloch, who had so struck and abused them, in the course of their avocation, with a strop, that one of their bodies, from head to foot, was completely covered over with black and blue spots, and had other evidences severe bodily injury. The attention of the rural policeman at Kirkintilloch was directed to the weaving shop of John Hendrie by the information of his neighbours; and we do not wonder, looking to the exhausted and fearfully lacerated state in which the boys were, that he considered it was high time that they should be taken out of the hands of such a barbarian. The prisoner Hendrie has been sent to Dumbarton, in which shire the crime was committed, and there can be no doubt that the authorities there will see that receives such an award for his treatment of the two orphans as shall serve as a warning to the numerous other weaving masters in Kirkintilloch who have hospital boys and girls under their charge.— Glasgow Chronicle.'

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