Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 18 December 1922
Homing Pigeons Stolen by Conisborough Brothers.
“Even beginners have to learn by experience… remarked the presiding magistrate (General Sir Alington Bewicke-Copley) at Doncaster West Riding Court, on Saturday, when three brothers, Gladstone, Dick, and Sam Hudson, of Conisbro’, were fined 10s. each for stealing pigeons, which were identified by rings issued by the National Homing Union.
The pigeons were found at defendants’ lofts. Gladstone and Dick Hudson said they bought them, and were ignorant that they had to be registered.