Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 11 April 1893
Arthur Squires, a boatman, of Kilnhurst, was summoned for a breach of the by-laws of the River Dun Navigation, by which it was made a punishable offence to leave a boat in the canal or river in such a position as to be a source of danger to other boats. Defendant’s barge was unfit for work. Instead of withdrawing it from the water and breaking it up, he left it near the bank. The result was that it filled with water, sank, and then drifted into the middle of the stream, where it was a source of danger to all other passing boats, and would cost the Navigation £6 to remove. Defendant was fined 20s. and costs.
A Denaby miner named Arthur Sanson was fined 20s. and costs for a breach of one of the mines by-laws, the offence consisting in defendant not closing a brattice cloth after opening it. The Bench were in doubt as to whether defendant ought not to be sent to prison, but took a more lenient view of the case, and only inflicted a monetary penalty.