Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 19 September 1911

Conisbro’ Men’s Admission

Police-constable Barnes, who is stationed at New Conisborough, came upon Joseph Smith and Thomas Jones, alias Stokes, at one o’clock Sunday morning and found that Jones had a handkerchief containing 55 packets of cigarettes.

The men were near the shop of Mr. J. Peters, and when asked to account for having many cigarettes in then possession, they were unable to so, but afterwards admitted that they had broken open an automatic machine.

When daylight came, the officer, who was in company with Sergeant Ramsey, made an inspection and found that a machine at Mr. Peters’ shop had broken open.

At Doncaster, yesterday, on the application Superintendent Hickes, the prisoners were remanded.