Clothesline Thefts at Conisborough.

February 1910

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 14 February 1910

Clothesline Thefts at Conisborough.

At Doncaster, on Saturday. Emma Glynn, a married woman, of New Conisborough, was charged with stealing articles of clothing from three different persons.

It was stated that there were numerous other cases against the defendant.

The articles had been taken from clothes lines in back yards. The articles in question consisted of two shirts, belonging Mary O. Boyle; a bed quilt the property of Ida Gledall and a bed sheet, belonging to John Coxedge of Conisborough.

The defendant pleaded guilty, and was fined 20s. and costs in each case, or ten days to prison on each charge.