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    "BIRCHING - quick and convenient"

    "Young criminals when caught, often claimed to be younger than they were and sometimes gave different names on different occasions to avoid harsher penalties of several convictions. Birching was a quick and convenient way of treating these cases, though a child caught in the act of stealing oculd be given a month or two in the House of Correction for the first offence" (Kellow Chesney "The Victorian Underworld")

    1917 Edward Gardner, 10yrs, was given six strokes with a birch .Crime:Petty
    robbery at Samestone School. (ie near Margate, Kent) His 13 yr old brother was sent to a reform school until he was 19 yrs old for the same offence.

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