Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 17 May 1924
In Trouble All Round
Harry Murgatroyd, miner, Denaby, was charged at Doncaster on Tuesday with using obscene language, driving a car without a licence, damaging a tray, and using threats.
In the afternoon of Monday, April 5th, he came out of the Denaby Main Hotel and drove off in a two-seater car. The owner of the car, finding his car missing, reported the fact to the police, believing his car to have been stolen. Shortly after, Murgatroyd returned.
His licence had expired two years ago. When charged by the police, he said:
“I have had a drink or two. I got into the car because they said I could not drive it.”
Later in the same day the defendant was found making use of bad language in the Doncaster Road. He had kicked a waiter’s tray “almost in two,” and threatened Mr. W. I. Gibbs, the licensee of the Denaby Main Hotel.
The defendant had since apologised to Mr. Gibbs.
He was fined 12s. for using obscene language, 20s. for driving a car without a licence, and 25s. for damaging the tray, and was bound over, with costs.