Flat-Cap Hoodies! ; Their Crimes? Pitiful, When Compared to Today's Teen Gangs. Their Punishment? Barbaric Beatings. As These Newly Discovered Cases Reveal, Victorian 'Hoodies' Truly Deserved a Hug...
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LITTLE George Sayers was scarcely a hardened criminal.
Just 13 years old, small for his age due to malnourishment, his little face screwed up in an expression of bewilderment, he faced the police camera in May 1900 fearing, quite rightly, that he would be beaten for his crimes.See the full content of this document
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Flat-Cap Hoodies! ; Their Crimes? Pitiful, When Compared to Today's Teen Gangs. Their Punishment? Barbaric Beatings. As These Newly Discovered Cases Reveal, Victorian 'Hoodies' Truly Deserved a Hug...
George was accused of stealing handkerchiefs, rugs, skirts and shirts worth three pounds and ten shillings from the Newcastle shop where he was employed as an errand boy.
When he heard the charge, he burst into tears.One of some 14 children, whose father had deserted his 52-year- old mother Emma, leaving her to feed and clothe her huge brood alone. He was accused along with his mother, who admitted she had put him up to his petty thieving.'I told him to take them. Don't blame the boy,' she gall...See the full content of this document
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