After Pleasure Comes Pain

August 1908

Sheffield Evening Telegraph – Tuesday 25 August 1908

After Pleasure Comes Pain

A diminutive prisoner, boy named William Bulcroft, of Denaby. with record of four previous convictions for felony, was to-day, at Doncaster, sentenced to received six strokes of the birch rod for having yesterday stolen shilling from boy named John O’Malley, who had been sent on an errand.

Bulcroft subsequently admitted that, he had spent the money on sweets and cigarettes.