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THEFT OF SWEETS

BOYS TO BE THRASHED

In the Children’s Court two 14 year old boys, named Walter Hemley and Walter Spurr, were summoned for stealing sweets, the property of Alfred George Day.

Hemley pleaded guilty and Spurr not guilty.

Ivor Clinton, newspaper boy, said that he was near Mr. Day’s shop about 7 o’clock and saw the two boys go in. One of them asked for some sweets and the other took some from the window.

Alfred George Day said that Clinton spoke to him and he went after the boys. Hemley handed over the sweets produced and Spurr said he had nothing that morning. Witness had lost a good deal of stuff.

The case was adjourned for a fortnight in order that the parents of the boys might give them a good thrashing in the presence of the Police.












Of course, a fortnight later and war had been declared and the paper was too busy with war news to report on whether the punishment was ever carried out ...

It's a pity parents don't do that now, some of the little brats need a good thrashing.
Some of the scum bag parents too.

here here George totally agree

well smacking isn't an option needed, and i think smacking shows voilence is a way of punishment
iv never ever smacked my kids n they are good kids for now

i think somtimes ya can bring your kids up with all the love int he world but sociaty makes them go bad with the people they mix with, which as a parent you have no control over who they knock about with

We need more of this discipline today. Until our sons were late teens, we always knew - or thought we did - where they were and who their friends were. Sometimes I think the parents are to blame for bad behaviour in their children.
Liz

YES BUT DID YOU READ

parents of the boys might give them a good thrashing

THE PARENTS NOT POLICE...THE PATENTS

yep and i stil think its shocking hun

they were 14 yes they no right from wrong but thrashing them, what will it gain ?


i do also think some kids behave is defo down to there parents, as some dont seem to give a dam were there kids are

but i still odnt think "thrashing" or even smacking them is the answer

i dont condem people who do smack there kids that is there option but not one i choose to use

and ift he police demanded i thrash my kid id thrash the police lmaoooooo

http://www.hertfordshire-genealogy.co.uk/data/oldnews/hg-1914-july-thrashed.htm

posted the above on the Old Forum and Derek responded saying "Walter Spurr WAS thrashed. He was my grand father and his sister Alice Spurr told my Aunt that he had been thrashed for stealing as a child. (This punishment did not 'cure' him; a few more crimes were to follow!!)" As a result I added the following:

I am relieved to hear that Walter SPURR was thrashed - after having included details of a newspaper report in my book The London Gunners come to Town that said that he was going to be.

Another of the stories describing the activities of children in the book concerns Fred PARROT, who was 5½ and lived in Church Street, Hemel Hempstead. Based on a newspaper article in the following week's newspaper I wrote that he "got so excited watching the soldiers march along the Redbourn Road [in August 1914] that he fell off the stile and broke his arm."

A couple of years after I published the book I was accosted by a customer in an antique shop. "Your book contains an error," he said, "Fred did not fall off the stile - he was pushed by my uncle!" Curses - wrong again.

There is a lesson here. We all look at our present day newspapers and mutter under our breath when they misreport a story. The same happened in the past - and we must always be aware that historical records can contain errors - many of which we will never be able to identify.

It happened not so long ago in Saudi.They got caned. might be a good Idea to do it here.**M**.