Greensboro, Feb. 2—Policemen today were ordered by Judge D.H. Collins of municipal court to investigate further the whipping of a little girl 4 years old, daughter of Mrs. S.T. Griffin, this city.
Mrs. Gladys McDonald is charged with the cruel whipping of the child and is in jail. According to the child’s mother, who works in an overall factory, she paid Mrs. McDonald to keep her child while she worked and came home recently to have the little one tell her she had been whipped by Mrs. McDonald. She says she examined the child’s back and found it cut in shreds and bleeding, 15 stripes having been left by the lash. The mother burst into tears when she told her story to the judge and had to retire from the courtroom. After viewing the torn and bruised back of the child in court, Judge Collins ordered the officers to find the facts and said, “I am going to send some one to jail for a long term.” Mrs. McDonald said she did not whip the child.
From the front page of The Concord Daily Tribune, Wednesday, Feb. 3, 1926
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