Mexborough & Swinton Times — Saturday, 14 March 1914
Four Years Old
Mexboro’ Man Ill Rewarded
For an offence committed so long ago as November, 1910, a young man named Edward Gregory was sent to prison for 10 days. He was charged with stealing a silk muffler and a pair of socks valued at 2/-, and the property of Herbert Faulkner, on November 25th, 1910.
The prosecutor, a grocer, of Clayfield Lane, Mexboro’, said in November, 1910, he lived at Cliff View, Denaby Main, and the prisoner asked him if he would find him lodgings. They later decided to accept the prisoner as a lodger, and he stayed with them until the 25th, when he left about noon. At that time he was wearing a silk muffler they had lent him, and witness found later that he had taken a pair of socks. At the time witness took him to lodge with him he was in a pitiable condition, and he really took him in out of kindness, and “this is the way he served us,” added the prosecutor.
The Chairman: Did you get paid?
Prosecutor: No sir. We never got a halfpenny for his board or lodging.
P.C. Wadding said he received the prisoner into custody from the North Shields police the previous day, and when charged he replied: “I took the muffler to hide my ‘mukky’ shirt. I don’t mind the socks.”
The prisoner, who pleaded guilty, had nothing to say.