Benyan Clarke, a refuge from the war in Liberia, beat his stepson Alfred, sometimes with a belt, sometimes with slippers, sometimes with his fists. The two-year-old boy’s body had more than 100 bruises on it.
This miscellany of the month's less celebrated news is compiled by William Shaw and illustrated by Steve Larder.
In 1906 the critic Félix Fénéon wrote a column for the Parisian newspaper Le Matin called Nouvelles En Trois Lignes, which translates simultaneously as "News In Three Lines" and "Novellas In Three Lines".