Serious Allegation Against The Police.

March 1898

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Wednesday 09 March 1898

Serious Allegation Against The Police.

At Doncaster on Saturday, Wm. Lidster, collier, Conisborough was charged on remand with stealing three fowls, the property of John William Webster, on the 30th April.

The police arrested another man, in whose house they found two of the missing fowls. This man pleaded guilty, and on Monday was sent to prison for a month.

At the time said Lidster had nothing with the affair. When the police went to Lidster they told him to take his coat off, and they stated that they found a feather in one of the pockets.

Lidster stoutly maintained his innocence and said the police put the feather his pocket.

He now called witnesses to show that he was at the Star Hotel. Conisborough, where it, was said, the fowls were taken.