Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 14, 1929
A Brutal Assault.
Gaol for Denaby Man.
A brutal attack on a Denaby man was described at Doncaster on Saturday, when John Allan, of Denaby, who did not appear, was sent to prison for a month for having assaulted. Peter Doran.
Doran said that on May 25th he was in the Denaby Main Hotel when Allan went up to him, pulled him over a table, and struck him with a knife, cutting this face. He was turned out of the hotel. The same night Allan threw a half-brick at his house. Allan was his brother-in-law and had lived with him for two or three months until the day before the assault, when he left without any explanation.
They had never quarrelled, although some time ago Allan stuck a knife in his wrist.
Bernard Gibson, licensee of the hotel, gave evidence of evicting Allan from the premises and of seeing a cut on Doran’s cheek.
Joseph Platts, of Denaby, said he was in the hotel when Allan, who was quite sober, pulled Doran on this back and struck him with something. Nothing was said by either of the two men. Allan had something in his hand and there was a cut on Doran’s face.
Allan was sent to prison for a month, the Chairman (Mr Mark Nokes) remarking that he could not go into hotels and interfere with anyone sitting there.