Birch For Schoolboy

August 1927

Sheffield Independent – Thursday 11 August 1927

Birch For Schoolboy

A 13-year-old Denaby schoolboy was ordered six strokes with the birch rod Doncaster, yesterday, for stealing bicycle belonging to Irvine Taylor, Mexborough miner, employed at the Cadeby pit, and was bound over on charges of stealing various articles.

In two cases his younger brother, aged 11, and another small boy, aged eight, were involved and they were bound over, while in two other cases the boy’s mother was charged with receiving the articles, and she was bound over.