Miner’s Removal Without Notice.

At Doncaster West Riding Police Court, yesterday, Stanley Weston, alias R. D. Jones, and alias Jno. Evans, miner, Denaby, was charged with larceny as a bailee.

Mr. Frank Allen prosecuted, and said that the prosecutor, Mr. Herbert Wray, of Conisborough pawnbroker, on the 27th April let the defendant have a bed, mattress, blankets, sheets, quilt, and chairs, value £3 2s. 6d., on the hire system. The agreement provided that the goods should not be removed from the premises of the prisoner, who at that time was living at 17, Ravensfield Street, New Conisborough, without due notice being given.

The prosecutor discovered, however, that the prisoner had removed the goods, and ultimately traced him to Normanton.

In reply to the officer who arrested him prisoner said, “I was coming away, and I could not leave the things behind.”

Prisoner pleaded guilty, and was committed to prison for 14 days with hard labour.