Horses Straying on the Highway

August 1885

Mexborough and Swinton Times August 14, 1885

Horses Straying on the Highway

Thomas Booth, sickle maker, Harold Booth, sickle maker, William Booth, grocer and James Bosdin Clark, confectioner, all of Conisborough was summoned for allowing their horses to stray on the highway, near to Warmsworth on the 30th ult.

PC Harrington stated that at 4 o’clock in the morning on the 30th ult he was on duty on the highway near to Warmsworth, when he found four horses, the property of the defendants, straying on the highway. He took them to the pinfold. He had found the same horses straying on two previous occasions.

The defendant Thomas Booth said he represented the other defendants. The reason the horses I got out of the field was because, on three occasions, the gate had been left open by some person or persons unknown. He had had notices printed and had set people to watch, and yet the gate was left open.

The Chairman said that horses straying on the highway in this manner was a very dangerous thing.

A fine of five shillings and 6s 6d costs was inflicted in each case.