Pit Offences

William Brooks, dataller, Denaby who was employed at the Denaby pit, was at Doncaster today fined 15 shillings on the Coal Mines Act for taking a box of matches into the mine.

He said he was a non-smoker, and it was an inadvertence.

Thomas Whitehead, pony driver, Denaby, was ordered to pay 20 shillings for disobeying the orders of a corporal. Defendant was kept back with his pony at a junction in order other men go through, and he stampeded eight other horses, causing considerable inconvenience. He also fought with a pit Lad at the top who had spoken to him below.

Albert Bloomfield, pony driver, for not returning his horse to the horseman, was fined 40 shillings; and Thomas Hambrey, pony driver, Denaby was fined 20 shillings for a similar offence.

George Dodd, 15, pony driver, Denaby, was fined 50 shillings for failing to put a locker in some tubs at the head of incline, and for cruelty to a pony.