South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 October 1933

Litter And Language

Two Denaby miners, Robert Kirby and George Edward Horner, and a Conisborough glass worker, Frank Crook, were summoned at Doncaster on Saturday for obscene language and depositing litter on the highway at Edlington.

P.C. Keen said the three defendants were walking towards Conisborough and were using obscene language. He approached them and told them they would be reported. They went further up the road and bought fish and chips, the papers of which they threw on the pavement. Each defendant gave a wrong name and address.

Mr. W. I. Crawford said Crook was a respectable Conisborough youth and a Sunday School teacher. He produced references from a number of Conisborough people. Horner and Kirby denied that Crook used bad language and Crook denied that Kirby had any fish and chips. Kirby was fined 6s. for bad language and Horner and Crook 5s. for depositing the litter, and the remainder of the summonses were dismissed.