Mexborough and Swinton Times May 9, 1902
Sacking Theft
Thomas Kaye, labourer, Conisborough, was brought up in custody and charged on a warrant, issued at the instance of the Denaby Main Colliery Company with having committed larceny by stealing a quantity of sacking on April 19.
Mr Baddeley, was instructed prosecute on behalf of the colliery, in stating the facts said that at midnight on the date mentioned, the prisoner was observed along with another man who was dealt with at that court the previous Saturday, by the complainant’s watchman, Dodds, to be leaving the colliery with the sacking in his possession. Dodds, asked where he had got the sacking from, replied “The stores.”
The watchman next whether he had obtained permission to remove the cloth, when he replied in the negative, then ran away.
This statement having been born out by the evidence of watchman, who estimated the value of the sacking at 1s prisoner was mulcted in a penalty of 40s including costs.