The Wicked Boy (2015)
“The courthouse in West Ham Lane had been built eleven years earlier to designs by the architect also responsible for the Stratford town hall, which was next door, and the Barking Road public hall and library. It was a three-storey yellow-brick building, Italianate in style and adorned with Portland stone carvings of the Royal Arms. There was no separate court for young defendants. Though both Robert and Nattie were children – defined by the Children’s Act of 1889 as a boy under fourteen or a gi...rl under sixteen – they were considered criminally responsible if they could tell right from wrong, and would be tried in the same way as adults.
A huge crowd had assembled outside the courthouse. The Sun, a Liberal halfpenny paper, observed that the excitement generated by the recent election in West Ham ‘had given place to an excitement of a very different kind’. The court opened when the district’s stipendiary magistrate, Ernest Baggallay, reached Stratford from his home in Kensington, an affluent neighbourhood near the centre of London.MoreLess
A huge crowd had assembled outside the courthouse. The Sun, a Liberal halfpenny paper, observed that the excitement generated by the recent election in West Ham ‘had given place to an excitement of a very different kind’. The court opened when the district’s stipendiary magistrate, Ernest Baggallay, reached Stratford from his home in Kensington, an affluent neighbourhood near the centre of London.MoreLess
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