Leeds Mercury – Wednesday 11 December 1929
Candour.
John H. Ratcliffe, miner, of no fixed address, was sent to prison for three months at Doncaster yesterday on a charge of being found on enclosed premises at Denaby.
P.C. Howard said that early yesterday he found prisoner trying doors in the yard at the rear of a Denaby Co-operative Society’s shop, and the Post Office.
He asked defendant what he was doing there, and replied, Trying to get in.”