South Yorkshire Times – Friday 20 April 1934
Found Drowned
The body of Albert Ackroyd (58), of 27, Rossington Street, Denaby, an unemployed miner and a trustee of the Denaby Welfare Institute, who has been missing since April 11th, was early yesterday morning recovered from the river Don near the Conisborough Cliff Company’s quarries.
The body was seen by George Cowdell, 3, Don View, Conisborough, a workman employed by the Cliff Company, who notified the police.