Daily Mail, London, 24 April 1929, p.9 . Smoking Boy Case Again in Court. Judge and “Taking it Like a Man.” CASE. — The King v. Justices of Newport, Shropshire, ex parte Wright. COURT. — Kings Bench Divisional Court. JUDGES. — The Lord Chief Justice (Lord Hewart) and Justices Avory and Swift. COUNSEL. — For the Justices: Mr. Ronald […]
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Boy Who Smoked
London, 9 January 1929, p.7 Schoolroom Sequel Bench & Deserved Punishment. The headmaster and two assistant masters of Newport, Shropshire, Grammar School who took part in the flogging of a pupil for smoking were summoned by the boy’s father, Mr. Ernest J. Wright, at Newport yesterday for assault. The masters were Mr. Walter […]
Caned boy’s summons
Daily Mail, London, 13 August 1928, p.8 In the courts. Prefect’s defence. Father withdraws case. John King Day, aged 15, of Coddington Hall, Newark, Nottinghamshire, a prefect at Stamford Grammar School, Lincolnshire, and nephew of the headmaster, the Rev. J.D. Day, was summoned at Stamford on Saturday for assaulting John Henry Davis, aged 10, a […]
A Good Healthy Caning.
Daily Mail, London, 10 September 1927, p.5 Mr. Bingley Was Right. By John Blunt. I sympathize with Mr. Bingley, the Marylebone magistrate, for refusing an application for a summons against a London County Council teacher who had caned a pupil. Nowadays there are a lot of people who seem to think that for a small […]
Birch For Attempted Robbery
The Times, London, 24 February 1926 Sentence of eight months’ imprisonment in the second division and 16 strokes with the birch was passed by the Recorder (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, on PHILLIP GOUROVITCH, 16, salesman, of Russo-Jewish parentage, who pleaded “Guilty” to a charge of, while armed with a […]
Robbery With Violence
The Times, London, 17 November 1925 Sentence of six months’ imprisonment in the second division and 24 strokes of the birch was passed by the RECORDER (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) at the Central Criminal Court yesterday, on WILLIAM ALLAN MAYLIN, 19, motor driver, for robbery with violence upon Benjamin Mayer and stealing from him a […]
Recorder On The Punishment Of Flogging
Central Criminal Court. Click to enlarge The Second January Session of the Central Criminal Court was opened yesterday at the Sessions House, Old Bailey, by the Lord Mayor, who was accompanied by Alderman Sir Charles Johnston, Mr. Sheriff J.E.K. Studd, Mr. Sheriff S.H.M. Killik, and Mr. Under-Sheriff W.H. Champness. Mr. Justice Salter will sit this […]
Wild scenes as men are doomed to be flogged
The Vancouver Sun, Canada, 31 December 1922, p.34 BELFAST, Dec. 30. — There were distressing scenes here when eleven men, convicted of robbery and attempted robbery under arms, were sentenced to terms of penal servitude ranging from seven to three years, and to receive from 10 to 15 strokes of the cat. The public gallery […]
To Cane Or Not?
The Times, London, 19 March 1921 Headmaster of Rugby’s Views At a meeting held on February 15 the members of the association passed a resolution urging that, in view of the evidence of damage caused by caning on the hand, and the possibility of impairment of function, this form of punishment should be forbidden. Yesterday […]
A School Girl’s Caning
he Times, London, 25 June 1920 Headmaster’s Explanation. The question of the infliction of corporal punishment on a girl pupil, named Brown, by a male teacher, has been discussed by the Canterbury Education Committee. The father of the girl complained that she had been caned by Mr. Randerson, the headmaster of the Wesleyan School. He […]