Breach Of Special Rule At Denaby

Patrick Flanery and Enoch Vickers, both living in Denaby Terrace, had been summoned for a breach of special rule 30.

Mr. F. Parker Rhodes prosecuted, and said the defendants were colliers and worked together. They had holed under eleven yards, and had only four sprags set. There were 13ft. between two and 8ft. between the other two. The rule required that a sprag should be set every two yards.

The case was proved by William Oswald, a deputy. Flanery appeared, and was fined 5s. and costs, or ten days.

Vickers did not appear, and it was stated that he was in the building, but he was drunk and would not come into the Court. Fined 20s. and costs, or one month’s imprisonment.