Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 22 September 1922
How Doncaster Police Missed A Chase.
Several bicycles have disappeared in the Doncaster district recently and at the West Riding Court yesterday, George Hall, miner, who has been living at 22, Clifton Street, Conisboro’, was charged with stealing a machine from the Bentley Colliery, belonging to John Richardson, Miley
Supt Minty explained that owing to several bicycles having been stolen in the district, he wished for a remand for a week to make further enquiries as they might be able to bring home to prisoner further charges.
Police constable Lewington said that on the previous night he visited prisoner’s lodgings at 22, Clifton Street, Conisbrough, and when he told him is errand, prisoner replied, “I have not been near Bentley Colliery,” but on the officer looking in the kitchen he saw the missing bicycle and took him into custody.
At the office prisoner was charged with the theft and replied “If I had known I should have given you a run for it.”
He was remanded for a week.