Took Wagons Sheet to Cover Crops – Conisbrough Men Fined

May 1957

South Yorkshire Times, May 18, 1957

Took Wagons Sheet to Cover Crops
Conisbrough Men Fined

Because it was raining and he had nothing with which to cover his crops a Conisbrough farmer with the help of another man stole a tarpaulin railway wagon cover, magistrates at Doncaster West Riding Court were told on Friday.

Before the court charged with stealing the cover, valued at £8,were Geoffrey William Harrison (28), a farmer, of Manor Farm cottage, Conisbrough, and Samuel Walton (29), a miner of Chestnut Grove, Conisbrough.

Both pleaded guilty to the offence, and Harrison was fined £3 and Walton was fined £3.