Mexborough and Swinton Times, November 3.
Pony Whipping in Denaby.
Thomas Marmion, of Denaby, aged 17, was charged by Mr Harry Chambers, certified manager of the colliery there, with cruelty to a pony on October 13.
Mr Rhodes was for the prosecution, and he called a worker in the colliery, Cottam, who related that on this day a pony, which Marmion had charge, when turning a corner down an incline in the pit, was overborn by a weight of two corves, and that Marmion, instead of putting the eye and locker in one of the wheels, struck the animal twice with it between the collar and saddle, causing a lump to rise as large as a Cocoa nut and the touching of which made the poor animal to flinch.
“What have you to say?” The Chairman asked of Marmion.
“Well, I’m very sorry sir.”
“I should think you are,” the Chairman said – “you will go to the house of correction for a month.”