Leicester Mercury, 6 January 1936 From Court To The Whipping Post Le’ster Recorder Orders Boy To Be Birched Lad Who Associated With Older Youths In Shopbreaking Others Bound Over (extracts) The Recorder, at Leicester Quarter Sessions this afternoon, ordered that a 15-year-old boy should be taken straight from the court and birched. JOHN LESLIE SWINFIELD, […]
“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’ […]
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 […]