Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 3 August 1894
Theft from a Denaby Man
William Walters, miner, Conisborough, was charged with stealing a beast’s heart belonging to Richard Smith Gill, mason’s labourer, Denaby, on Saturday afternoon.
The prosecutor had wrapped the heart in a handkerchief and entered the Plant Inn for a drink. While he was drinking lemonade, Walters took the heart.
Walters was apprehended at the railway station. He denied stealing the heart, claiming that he had paid Gill 1s. 6d. for it.
Having already been fined on Saturday for stealing strawberries, Walters was committed to prison for 14 days.