THE BOY WHO RAN AWAY.
For the defendants William Chase was called. He said that he would be 15 in April. He ran away home from the Camberwell Infirmary in his trousers and shirt. He was afraid that he was going to get some more floggings Dr. Keats flogged him on the bare flesh; he would not let him speak. He (the witness) had hit a nurse by accident; he had tried to hit another boy who had a penny of his and hit the nurse. He was beaten with five cords, not with pieces of string. When he ran away he was brought back in the ambulance. Then the doctor whipped him again. He had thanked Dr. Keats and a lady. He had not thanked him for flogging him, but for saving him from prison.