Boy broke cane in protest

 

An appeal court acquitted a headmaster of assault after he gave a boy accused of cheating four strokes of the cane. The boy had previously broken a cane in protest.

As published in the Impartial Reporter and Northern Farmers’ Journal (Enniskillen, Northern Ireland), 24 June 1937.

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