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Elizabeth Crowden (14) - stole a purse from her master. These are the historic mugshots of a town's most feared historic criminals - including a seven-year-old boy given a flogging for stealing SWEETS. See SWNS story SWMUG; More than 235,000 prison records from the past 180 years have been published online, giving sometimes shocking details of past crimes and punishments. Little Edgar Kilminster was only 3ft 10in when he was banged up in 1870 - and the seven-year-old was given a week's hard labour and 12 strokes with the birch alongside his nine-year-old brother Joseph.