Bad Conisboro’ Boy

September 1903

Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 25 September 1903

A Bad Conisboro’ Boy

At Doncaster a boy named Percy Butcher, of Conisborough, was charged at Doncaster, on Monday, with stealing a bicycle belonging to Ernest Hall, blacksmith’s apprentice, of Conisborough.

The bicycle was left in a yard, and prisoner took it away and tried to sell it.

He was ordered to receive 12 strokes with the birch, this being the third conviction this year.