Before the magistrate
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Compilation of local newspaper articles illustrating the Prince Edward Island courts' treatment of young offenders in the latter part of the 19th century. Examples include an 11 year old, given ten days hard labour for "orchard stealing", and "a boy of about fourteen years of age...arrested for searching countrymen's carts with intent to steal...sentenced to one month's imprisonment for vagrancy.", compiled by Nathan H. Mair.
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- Title
- Before the magistrate: stories of small-crime offenders in Charlottetown in the 1880s and 1890s
- Creator
- Subject
- Juvenile justice, Administration of, Juvenile justice, Administration of--Prince Edward Island--Cases--19th century
- Description
- Compilation of local newspaper articles illustrating the Prince Edward Island courts' treatment of young offenders in the latter part of the 19th century. Examples include an 11 year old, given ten days hard labour for "orchard stealing", and "a boy of about fourteen years of age...arrested for searching countrymen's carts with intent to steal...sentenced to one month's imprisonment for vagrancy.", compiled by Nathan H. Mair.
- Publisher
- Printed by the author
- Contributor
- Mair, Nathan H.
- Date
- Type
- collection, ingested
- Format
- electronic
- Identifier
- isbn:\xa00921475195, ilives:282437
- Source
- Language
- eng
- Relation
- Coverage
- Prince Edward Island, 19th century
- Rights
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