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This Day in History: 26 February 1872 — The Urinal Robbery of Old Street

On 26 February 1872, Horace Crosby and George Dowling were convicted at the Central Criminal Court for violently robbing a wicker-worker in an Old Street urinal. Though they stole only three postcards and papers, the assault led to a sentence of eighteen months’ imprisonment and twenty lashes with the cat.