Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 01 July 1911
Colliery Rules
Thomas Oliver, a Cadeby pony driver, was charged with cruelty to a horse in the Cadeby mine, and pleaded guilty.
Mr Allen explained that Eli Croxall, the deputy, and Isaac Hickman discovered that defendant had tidies ponies tongue and jaw with a whiplash, a procedure calculate to inflict intense pain upon the pony.
The defendant was fined 5/– and costs.
Thomas Randall, pony driver at Cadeby colliery was charged, under Special Rule 14, with doing an act likely to endanger the safety of the mine. A large piece of coal was produced, which it was alleged, defendant at thrown at a pony and hit it on the rump. The Colliery company wished, said Mr Allen to stop this promiscuous throwing about of coal, which was liable to bring down portions of the roof.
The defendant was fined 5/– and costs.