Birch and prison for three men
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Youth’s assault in shop. Imprisonment and birch
Illustrated Police News, London, 26 September 1929 . That a young man’s mind was affected through seeing films and...
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Birch For Attempted Robbery
The Times, London, 24 February 1926 Sentence of eight months’ imprisonment in the second division and 16 strokes with...
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Robbery With Violence
The Times, London, 17 November 1925 Sentence of six months’ imprisonment in the second division and 24 strokes of...
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Headmaster Wins Caning Appeal
Boy Says His Mother Told Him to Refuse “Four on the Seat” Mr. Ernest Edwin Black, headmaster of Durham...
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Youthful Offenders
HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday — Lord James of Hereford, moving the third reading of the Youthful Offenders Bill, stated...
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Bandit to be Birched
Daily Mirror, London, 16 January 1934, p.8 It was stated that Smith, with a stolen motor-cycle, snatched an attache...
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Sensation Caused by Rear Admiral Cochrane’s Revelations.
The New York Times, 11 February 1903 British Guards Scandal Subalterns Compelled to Submit to Severe Floggings for Various...
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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,...