Mexborough and Swinton Times August 8, 1925

Stolen Duck Egg.
A Difficult Denaby Youth.

A Denaby youth at Doncaster on Tuesday denied stealing a duck’s egg, called a witness against him a liar, and said he “was not going to stand it.”

And as he was leaving the court after a stern warning by the magistrates, had to be checked by a police man for another break in manners.

John Bentley, miner. Denaby. was in his allotment in Back Lane when he saw the youth force open the gate of an allotment belonging to George Robinson, a colliery dataller. On going up to Bentley the youth tried to hide the egg which he had taken.

The youth was stated to have started work at Messrs. Waddington Browes when only 13 years old, and to have been injured a year or so later in an accident, since when he had not worked.

He was stated at the hearing of charges of theft against him, on a previous occasion, to be an epileptics subject.

He was put under probation.