South Yorkshire Times November 10, 1956

Please note the names have been changed

Remanded in Custody
Denaby Man Accused of Wounding His Son

A family argument in a Denaby house culminated in a 68-year-old retired miner stabbing one of his sons in the left shoulder with a butcher’s knife, it was alleged at Doncaster West Riding Court on Tuesday.

The retired miner, Robert Smith, of Braithwell Street, Denaby, was remanded in custody a week accused of wounding Edward Smith with intent to injure.

Chief superintendent L. D. Lewrey said defendant lived with his wife and two sons in Braithwell Street, and on the Monday afternoon he had some drink but was not drunk. Sometime later, said the Chief Superintendent, one of his sons returned home drunk, and an argument started between father and son. Another son, who had been in bed, got up and joined in the argument.

Accused, said the chief superintendent, became very angry.

He later told the police, the Chief Superintendent alleged, that his son, Edward, said to him, “you are not the gaffer here. Where is that chopper?”

The elder Smith then went into the front room, and got a butchers knife out of the drawer, went back to where the argument was continuing and stabbed Edward in the left shoulder, alleged the superintendent.

Edward went to the police station bleeding profusely from the shoulder and was taken to the Fullerton hospital Denaby, from whence he was allowed to go home after treatment.