Apparently someone reported to Mrs. Bracey-Wright, who was one of the Camberwell guardians, that corporal punishment had been inflicted on these boys. About this time an election for the board of guardians was imminent, and it was possibly thought by some people that a crusade against corporal punishment might procure the success of candidates. When the election was coming on the defendant and her son issued to each of the electors in the ward for which they were candidates an address, accompanied by a leaflet containing a reprint from an article in a newspaper.
Caning from of the Times48
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