On This Day, 2 January 1917

Birmingham Daily Post

Tuesday 2 January 1917

COVENTRY BOY’S ESCAPE FROM THE BLIND INSTITUTION

At Coventry Police Court, yesterday, Fred Burr, living in Much Park Street, was summoned for harbouring his son, who escaped from the Royal Institution for the Blind, Birmingham. The boy, blind, ran away from the care of Mr. W. H. Thurman, the superintendent, and went home. When the superintendent school attendances officer at Coventry went to the house, defendant acted in defiant manner, produced iron bar, and threatened to “brain him”. The Bench imposed a fine of £5, and Burr said would not pay 5d., but do the alternative of twenty eight days’ imprisonment.