Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 01 October 1908
Burglary Charge at Rotherham
Yesterday morning, at Rotherham West Riding Court, Joseph Newey, of Mexbro’, and John Hargate, of Denaby, miners, were remanded on a charge of burglary at Swinton.
In the early hours of Sunday morning the house and shop of Samuel Howett, 21, Road, Swinton, were entered and 11s. 10d. stolen, together with a glazier’s diamond worth 10s.
Sergeant Dyson proved the arrest of the men at Mexbro’.
Hargate replied “I do not want to say anything,” and Newey answered, I am not guilty.”
He afterwards stated that threw the glazier’s diamond into the canal at Mexbro’.