British Medical Journal, London, 22 December 1934, p.1178 Correspondence A Plea for the Exemption of Girls SIR,-I would be grateful if you would publish the attached correspondence with a view to finding out what is the opinion of the profession on the question whether the caning of girls can be justified on medical grounds. I […]
“Cat” for two “brutes”
Daily Express, London, 12 July 1934, p.7 Attack on crippled shopkeeper Click to enlarge Frederick William Ralph, aged twenty-three, a stereotyper, and Charles Timms, aged twenty-two, an electroplater, were at Birmingham Assizes yesterday ordered by Mr. Justice Lawrence to receive twelve and ten strokes of the “cat” respectively. They were also sentenced to nine months’ […]
Nearly 100 Schoolboys Caned
Daily Mail, London, 20 February 1934, p.11 Council May Order An Inquiry From Our Special Correspondent ALLEGATIONS concerning the caning of a large number of scholars at Queen Elizabeth’s Grammar School for Boys here, which have been made before the Barnet Urban District Council, are now a topic of local discussion.BARNET, Herts, Monday. To-day the […]
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 […]
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 Dismissed The headmaster is Mr. S. de Moyse Bucknall, principal of Harrow View House Preparatory School, Ealing, and he was summoned by Mrs. Mona Alice Goodwin, of Cleveland-road, Ealing, wife of a City solicitor, for assaulting […]
Birching of Young Offenders
Times Educational Supplement, London, 3 June 1933 House of Commons Mr. Godfrey Nicholson (for Viscountess Astor) asked the Home Secretary if his attention had been drawn to recent cases where punishments of birching had been inflicted on boys before the expiration of the statutory period during which the decisions might be appealed against; if he was […]
Robbery at estate office
The Times, London, 29 April 1933, p.4 At the Central Criminal Court on Thursday HUGH HUGHES, 25, draughtsman, and SIDNEY ALBERT BARBER, 25, wireman, pleaded “Guilty” to being armed with a dummy revolver and robbing Cecil Thomas Stickings of the sum of £6 at the estate office of the Worshipful Company of Skinners in Skinner […]
Garage proprietor robbed
The Times, London, 6 April 1933, p.11 Sentences in Camden Town case Mr. Naylor, a garage proprietor, of Bristol, was on a business visit to London, when he was attacked outside a flat in Mornington Crescent, N.W., and robbed of £204. So serious were his injuries that for a time his life was despaired of.After […]
Shooting gallery incident
The Times, London, 17 November 1932, p.9 Sentence for theft of firearms Mr. Anthony Hawke, prosecuting, said that two men were present when Mr. Salt was knocked down and injured so severely that his life was at one time in danger.Sentence of 18 months’ imprisonment with hard labour and 18 strokes with the birch was […]
Young Men’s Crimes
The Times, London, 23 September 1932 Record On Robbery With Violence Sentence of three years’ penal servitude was passed at the Central Criminal Court yesterday on ALBERT WATSON, 23, a labourer, who was found Guilty of robbing with violence Mr. Nathan Ducker, assistant manager of the Standard Cinema, Hackney, and stealing from him an attaché-case containing £9 […]