Mexborough & Swinton Times — September 10, 1904
Drink and Cruelty at Denaby
A Denaby miner named George Walters, alias “Gloucester,” was summoned for having been drunk and disorderly, and with cruelty to a cat, at Denaby, on August 27th.
Defendant did not appear.
P.C. Wailes deposed that at 11-45 p.m. the previous Saturday night he was on duty in Melton Street, Denaby, in company with P.C. Richardson, where they found the defendant, who was in a very drunken condition, surrounded by a crowd of people and making use of most filthy and obscene language.
They ordered him away several times, but he refused to go. A little later he took up a dark grey cat, and struck a man named Benj. Wall across the face with it.
They again spoke to him about ill-treating the cat, and defendant then threw it down in the street, exclaiming—“—— the —— cat, they are nothing but vermin.”
The cat lingered a time, but eventually died.
P.C. Richardson corroborated.
Benj. Wall, a miner, residing at 19, Melton Street, Denaby, said at 11-30, on the 27th of August, he was going down the street, when he met Walters, who hit him across the face with a cat. The defendant was drunk, and when spoken to by the police he threw the cat down.
Defendant was fined 5s. and 8s. costs for the drunkenness, and 20s. and 16s. 6d. costs for the ill-treatment of the cat.