Yorkshire Post and Leeds Intelligencer – Monday 18 September 1939
Prosecutions
There were prosecutions for breach of the lighting restrictions in Yorkshire on Saturday; and at Doncaster West Riding Court Inspector Lee said that since the regulations came into operation eleven cyclists had been killed in the district, and none had a rear red light.
Arthur Jaques a young miner Conisborough, was fined £1 for failing to have a red rear light to his cycle during the hours darkness, and the Chairman (Mr. M. Nokcs) said the fine should be taken by others a warning.
Five of the other six cases at Doncaster came from Denaby. All the offenders had left the door and allowed light to stream across the road. A policeman said that William Hawkins (60), miner, sat on the doorstep with the door wide open behind him. Hawkins was fined £3, also was William Logan miner.
William Kelly (20) miner, who was stated policeman to have had his door wide open and no screen to the window, was fined.
Fines of £2 were imposed Abraham Richardson and Alfred Smith, both Denaby miners. Ivor Thomas (38). miner, of Skellow, was fined £5. A special constable said that there was a light showing at a rear window of Thomas’s house, and that when spoken to threatened what he would do the special constables did not get out his yard.