Recorder and undisciplined youth
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The strange case of Hereford’s birching
Life, New York, 6 December 1943 The strange case of Hereford’s birching A small episode in British juvenile courts...
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Youthful Offenders Bill.
The Times, London, 13 March 1900, LORD JAMES OF HEREFORD moved the second reading of this Bill, the object...
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Robbery at estate office
The Times, London, 29 April 1933, p.4 At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday HUGH HUGHES, 25, draughtsman, and...
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Prison and the Birch
The Times, London, 20 January 1932, p.6 The RECORDER (Sir Ernest Wild, K.C.) sentenced Howitt to 17 months’ imprisonment...
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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...
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Woman magistrate who had boys birched starts row: ‘It’s back to barbarism,’ says colleague
Daily Mirror, London, 11 July 1947, p.1 A WOMAN magistrate who yesterday ordered birching for two boys — one...
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Young Men’s Crimes
The Times, London, 23 September 1932 Record On Robbery With Violence Sentence of three years’ penal servitude was passed...
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Bad Boys Birched
Weekly Dispatch, London, 5 August 1917 Two Lads Scared by Result of Their Misdoings. Charged with stealing a lady’s...