Sheffield Evening Telegraph – Saturday 30 January 1909
Colliery Offences.
Miners Fined at Doncaster
At the Doncaster West Riding Court this morning. Martin Doherty and Frank Shaw, miners, of Denaby, pleaded guilty to a breach of colliery rules at the Cadeby Colliery.
Doherty had neglected draw the back timber before drawing the face timber, and Shaw had disobeyed the order of a deputy. They thus endangered the safety the mine, and were each fined 20s and costs.
Arthur Gough, Thomas Haycock, George Wright, Hugh Williams, Patrick Frain, Robert Burton, Thomas Farival, and William Bright, fillers at Cadebv Colliery, were charged with neglecting to obey the orders of a deputy by refusing to go along the travelling road and insisting on going along the plane, which was nearer, though the route was fraught with danger to them.
Haycock’s defence was that he was obliged to go over some portion of the plane before he could roach the travelling road, and the latter, he urged was not kept in good condition.
Gough, Bright, and Williams, who did not attend, were fined 7s. 6d. each and the other defendants 5s. each.