Barnsley Chronicle, etc. – Saturday 15 October 1898
At the Pontefract West Riding Court on Saturday, a Denaby miner named Arthur Lockwood, was charged in custody with poaching on the Hemsworth Hall estate on 19 September last.
He pleaded guilty, and was committed to 1 month’s imprisonment with hard labour and ordered to pay the costs, 15 shillings for a further 14 days, also to find two sureties of £5 each and to be bound over in £10 for six months or undergo three months imprisonment.