Young Men’s Crimes
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Schoolboy flogging charge fails
Daily Mirror, 18 November 1933, p.3 Master Denies “Brutality” Story of Nine-Year-Old Boy Who “Bullied” Dormitory Whipping Mother’s Summons...
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No Officer to Carry Out Birching Order
The Glasgow Herald, 30 March 1945 So said Sheriff-substitute G.D. Valentine at Perth Sheriff Court yesterday after he had...
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Youthful Offenders
HOUSE OF LORDS, Tuesday — Lord James of Hereford, moving the third reading of the Youthful Offenders Bill, stated...
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Grenadier Guards Scandal
The New York Times, 12 February 1903 Circumstances That Led to the Expose of the Methods of Punishment of...
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‘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...
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Robbery With Violence
The Times, London, 17 November 1925 Sentence of six months’ imprisonment in the second division and 24 strokes of...
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Birch For Attempted Robbery
The Times, London, 24 February 1926 Sentence of eight months’ imprisonment in the second division and 16 strokes with...
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Ragging” in H.M.S. Kent
The Times, London, 19 May 1905, pp.6,7 House of Commons, Thursday, May 18. Navy Estimates. (extracts) The House went...