South Yorkshire Times – Friday 13 April 1934
Missing.
Albert Ackroyd (50), unemployed miner, 27, Rossington Street, has been missing since Tuesday, and a cap and papers, which have been identified as his property, were found on the bank of the Don near Conisborough Viaduct on Wednesday.
The police have carried out dragging operations without success. Ackroyd is well known in the district. He is a trustee of the Denaby Miners’ Welfare Institute, a member of the Fullerton Hospital board of management, of the committee of the Denaby and Cadeby Collieries Mutual Help Society, and an official of the British Legion.
South Yorkshire Times – Friday 20 April 1934
Found Drowned.
The body of Albert Ackroyd (56), of 27, Rossington Street, Denaby, an unemployed miner and a trustee of the Denaby Welfare Institute, who has been missing since April 11th, was early yesterday morning recovered from the river Don near the Conisborough Cliff Company’s quarries.
The body was seen by George Cowdell, 3, Don View, Conisborough, a workman employed by the Cliff Company, who notified the police.