Weekly Dispatch, London, 5 August 1917 Two Lads Scared by Result of Their Misdoings. Charged with stealing a lady’s handbag containing 45s. and securities worth £37.10s., at Cleethorpes, two lads, aged 13, explained at Grimsby yesterday that the theft arose out of a boyish prank. The owner of the bag was lodging with the mother […]
Birch for the Boys 16 September 1911
Eastern Morning News, Hull, Yorkshire, 16 September 1911 Birch for the Boys. An Evening Out with a Pony and Cart. An extraordinary story was told in the Grimsby Children’s Court yesterday, when two twelve-year-old boys, Horace Cox and Michael Brannan, were charged with stealing a cycle lamp. The lads broke into a stable and stole […]
Boy Chapel-Breakers
Shoreditch Observer and Hackney Express, London, 19 September 1908 North London. . Click to enlarge Two Stoke Newington boys — Edward Arthur Gault, 14, and John James Larkin, 13 — were charged on Tuesday with breaking into the Wordsworth-road Baptist Chapel, Stoke Newington, and stealing a cornet, trombone, and some wearing apparel, the property of […]
Naval Courts-Martial, 1904
The Times, London, 26 September 1905 Naval and Military Intelligence Returns of the number of Courts-martial held and summary punishments inflicted on seamen of the Royal Navy, &c., during the year 1904 have been issued as a Parliamentary paper [Cd. 2677]. These returns show that the number of Courts-martial which took place during the year […]
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 into Committee of Supply on the Navy Estimates, Mr. Jeffreys (Hants, N.), in the chair. […] “Ragging” in H.M.S. Kent. Mr. PRETYMAN (Suffolk, Woodbridge) — In September, 1903, it came to the knowledge of the Admiralty […]
Corporal Punishment 1904
The Times, London, 27 August 1904, p.8 A return of all sentences of corporal punishment inflicted under 26 and 27 Vict., c.44, upon persons convicted of offences against section 43 of the Larceny Act, 1861, and section 21 of the Offences against the Person Act, 1861, in England and Wales for the year 1903 has […]
Corporal Punishment In The Navy.
The Times, London, 13 June 1904 To The Editor Of The Times. Sir, — Certain doubtless well-intentioned but mischievous persons have of late devoted themselves to raising an agitation against corporal punishment in the Royal Navy. I propose to set forth exactly what are the King’s Regulations on the subject. Section 729. — “It being requisite […]