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IMPUDENT BOY SEATED UPON PLATE AS A PUNISHMENT. That as a punishment for being impudent, boys in a Birmingham factory were sat on a warm plate was all'eged at Birmingham the c her day :na case in which Arthur White, 16, of Moor End Lane, Erdington, was remanded, on bail, charged with wounding fellow-worker, John Brockington, 24, of Clifton Road, Aston, by throwing a knife, which lodged in his hip. Det ictive-Inspector Sterry stated tbiat the alleged offance arose out oi an argument between White and Brockington. White was a little impudent, and it was a practice to put the offender on a hotplate. "Not too hot, just warm," added the inspector, and this was done to White. Apparently it had no effect, and he was again impudent and the punishment was repeated. When released he was alleged to have lost his temper and threw a knife at Brockington. The knife went through the latters double canvas trousers, and shirt, and inflicted a wound an inch long and half an inch deep.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 294, 6 August 1932, Page 6
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