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 case containing £18 from Miss Careman in Commercial-road, E. He snatched an attache case holding £21 rent money from Miss Balmer and her collar-bone was broken.Fifteen strokes with the birch and fifteen months’ imprisonment was the sentence passed at the Old Bailey yesterday on Edward Richard Smith, aged twenty-one, when he was found guilty of robbing Rhoda Careman and of robbing with violence Margaret Balmer. Smith was said to be one of a gang of six men.

Daily Mirror, London, 16 January 1934, p.8

Gave Men Lift — They Left Him In His Pants

Ragging” in H.M.S. Kent

M.P. wants women in flogging inquiry

Robbery With Violence

Robbery under arms

Wild scenes as men are doomed to be flogged

Birch for the Boys 16 September 1911

Youth’s assault in shop. Imprisonment and birch

Daily Mirror, London, 16 January 1934, p.8

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