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The Bulletin, Glasgow, 14 September 1957

Prisoner gets the birch

Thirty-three-year-old Fergus Dowell received 12 strokes of the birch rod at Durham Prison yesterday.

It was his punishment for attacking two prison officers at the prison last month.

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