Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Thursday 27 February 1930
Boys Break Into School.
Parents to Blame For Thefts, Say Bench.
Charges relating to several thefts were preferred against four small schoolboys of Conisborough Doncaster yesterday. Two the lads admitted three charges, one all the charges, and the other, two.
They also admitted that one night, they went into the Morley Place School, Conisborough, and took biscuits and paints. They had to put a stick through a hole in the school door to raise the catch and enter the building.
While outside a shop they stole several books, and when passing a foundry they entered the office and took cash and stamps. The tallest (aged ten years), further admitted stealing bicycle which had been left in a back garden.
Binding the boy s over and placing them probation for two years, the Chairman (Mr. H. Woodhouso) said the Bench were the opinion that the parents were blame and the children had not boon properly looked after.
The parents were ordered to pay 20s. each costs.