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On This Day

23

Oct
2017

In On This Day

By Nicola Gauld

On This Day, 23 October 1917

On 23, Oct 2017 | In On This Day | By Nicola Gauld

Birmingham Daily Gazette

Tuesday 23 October 1917

A BOY’S ADVENTURES

Escaping from a Birmingham reformatory school, Fredrick Stevens, aged 13, of Woking, fell into a canal and was rescued by a bargee with whom he lived for a year.

He afterwards wandered about the country on foot, and finally tramped home. He has now been sent back to the reformatory school.