Stealing Coal

Three boys, named Edward Quaile, Peter Barnes, and Thomas John Twigg, were charged with stealing coal from a waggon on a viaduct on the Midland Railway, at Kimberworth, on the 16th inst. Barnes was ordered to receive ten strokes with the birch rod, Twigg six strokes, and Quaile, who had been in prison since Friday, was discharged.

John Brook, Kilnhurst, was charged by Enoch Jagger, agent, with stealing 28lbs. of coal from Messrs. Charlesworth’s coal stithies, at Rawmarsh, on the 14th inst. Mr. Clegg, of Sheffield, defended. The case was proved by Police-constable Pilmore. Fined 10s. and costs 12s. 6d., or ten days’ imprisonment. The boy’s mother said she was unable to pay the money, and the boy was placed in the dock.

Robert Kendrick and George Thompson were charged with stealing 74lbs. of coal, from the Denaby Main Colliery yard, on the 16th inst. Mr. Clegg defended. The case was proved by the watchman, John Medd, and Police-constable Greenwood Midgley. The defence was that the boys had been in the habit of taking coal before the dispute, and that they did not know that the privilege was stopped. The defendants were cautioned and discharged.