Boy Chapel-Breakers

Shoreditch Observer and Hackney Express, London, 19 September 1908

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Two Stoke Newington boys — Edward Arthur Gault, 14, and John James Larkin, 13 — were charged on Tuesday with breaking into the Wordsworth-road Baptist Chapel, Stoke Newington, and stealing a cornet, trombone, and some wearing apparel, the property of the Rev. Thomas H. Squire. Mr. d’Eyncourt remanded Gault, pending admission to a reformatory. Larking [sic] was ordered 12 strokes with the birch rod.