INTERNATIONAL CHILD AND YOUTH CARE NETWORK

9 FEBRUARY 2000
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Many readers enjoyed Children of the Maybole Ragged School in the February 2000 issue of CYC-ONLINE. We thought you would be interested in this equally poignant extract.

Don't play ball on Sunday!

Records of Stipendary Magistrate Henry Pryor
Halifax, Nova Scotia
January 1877 - December 1885
DATE CHILD & AGE  OFFENSE SENTENCE
Dec 02 1884 James Aheam - 11 Breaking in to Dalhousie College and stealing from them 90 days
Nov 11 1879 William Beals - 10 Escaped from the Poor House  Sent back
June 7 1879 Thomas Byers - 10 Disorderly conduct in a shop Given a chance
Jan 8 1881 William Ballard - 13 Vagrance 5 years in the Industrial School
May 10 1881 William Byers - 13 Runaway from the Poor Asylum Sent back
Feb. 29 1884  Alice Beckett - 10 Larceny  $5 or 30 days
April 5 1887 William Connors - 12  Playing ball on Sunday $1 and costs
Mar 25 1884 Charles Connor - 9 Common vagrant 5 years in Industrial School
Sept 4 1880  Ellen Fry - 10 Assault $1 or 10 days
May 20 1879 John Hollywood - 11 Sleeping in a packing crate Sent to Poor House
July 27 1883 Charles MacDonald - 7 Disorderly conduct Discharged
June 9 1877 Charles Quinn - 8 Disorderly conduct $2 or 20 days