Bandit to be Birched
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Le’ster Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched
Leicester Mercury, 6 January 1936 From Court To The Whipping Post Le’ster Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched Lad...
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“Cat” for two “brutes”
Daily Express, London, 12 July 1934, p.7 Attack on crippled shopkeeper Click to enlarge Frederick William Ralph, aged twenty-three,...
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Young Men’s Crimes
The Times, London, 23 September 1932 Record On Robbery With Violence Sentence of three years’ penal servitude was passed...
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The Birch
The ‘Isle of Man’ birch was, essentially, a group of canes bound together and, as such, bears almost no...
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Bad Boys Birched
Weekly Dispatch, London, 5 August 1917 Two Lads Scared by Result of Their Misdoings. Charged with stealing a lady’s...
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Youths ordered prison and the birch
The Times, London, 17 June 1932, p.11 News in Brief Before the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the...
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Corporal Punishment in Gaol.
The Times, London, 4 January 1901 A report to the Birmingham justices presented by the Visiting Committee stated that...
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Recorder and undisciplined youth
The Times, London, 20 November 1931, p.4 England was sentenced to eight months’ imprisonment in the second division, with...