Eastern Morning News, Hull, Yorkshire, 16 September 1911Birch for the Boys.An Evening Out with a Pony and Cart.An extraordinary story was told in the Grimsby Children’s Court yesterday, when two twelve-year-old boys, Horace Cox and Michael Brannan, were charged with stealing a cycle lamp. The lads broke into a stable and stole some harness, then they went to Old Clee village and got a pony from a field. Taking a cart from a shed, they yoked the animal up and went for a drive. It became dusk, and as they wanted a lamp for the cart they pulled up outside an inn, and as a cyclist had left his machine standing outside they took his lamp and drove off with it. After it had served their purpose they sold it for sixpence. The Stipendiary said that it was a boys’ offence, and he should award a boys’ punishment — six strokes with the birch. |
Birch for the Boys 16 September 1911
Related Articles
-
Boy In Tears at Portland Court-Martial
Two youths, both with the rank of “boy” aboard H.M.S. Nelson, were at a court-martial on H.M.S. Titania at...
-
‘Birch My Boy’ — Mother
Evening News, London, 14 August 1947 ‘No, No, No,’ Says a Woman Magistrate WHEN a ten-year-old boy appeared to-day...
-
Armed Youth Chased By Schoolmaster
The Times, London, 15 June 1932 Police Officer’s Death From Shock The RECORDER ordered Greenwood to be sent to...
-
Whipping as Penalty
The Times, London, 11 December 1947 Amendments to new Bill From Our Parliamentary Correspondent Further amendments which have been...
-
Youthful Offenders Bill.
The Times, London, 13 March 1900, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD moved the second reading of this Bill, the object...
-
Robbery With Violence
The Times, London, 12 March 1932, p.4 Young Men Sentenced Mr. Eustace Fulton prosecuted; Mr. A.C. Douglas defended Gardener;...
-
For corporal punishment
Evesham Journal, Worcestershire, 17 April 1980 Letters to the Editor Sir — I refer to the letter from Tom...
-
Garage proprietor robbed
The Times, London, 6 April 1933, p.11 Sentences in Camden Town case Mr. Naylor, a garage proprietor, of Bristol,...