Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 17 September 1908

Adding Insult to Injury
Constable Kicked and his Whistle Stolen

Assaults on the police are becoming more common Denaby, and the magistrates have shown that such conduct cannot be allowed.

Yesterday the West Riding Court, Doncaster, a young man named Thomas Fallon, collier, was charged with being drunk and disorderly and assaulting Sergt. Ramsey.

The prisoner was creating a disturbance near the Denaby Hotel, and took no notice of the officer when told to be quiet. When being apprehended he became very violent, and tried to throw the officer down. He kicked him in the back and snatched his whistle away, and eventually, through the intervention of another man named Regan, who had already been dealt with, he managed to escape, but was apprehended at Wigan on Monday.

Prisoner was fined 2s. 6d. and costs or 7 days for being drunk and disorderly.

The Magistrates said they were determined if possible to put an end to these assaults on the police, and committed him to prison for six weeks on the other charge.