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.
