South Yorkshire Times and Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 27 October 1933

Wilful Damage

Four Conisborough pit hands, Reginald Skelton (18), Stanley Boult (18), Sidney Lawrence (17) and Arthur Green, were each fined 5s. at Doncaster on Saturday for wilful damage to a hedge, to the amount of 4s., belonging to the Barnsley Co-operative Society.

P.C. Yeomans said the youths left their bicycles in Village Wood Lane, Sprotbrough, and made a large gap in the hedge to get into the wood. They told him they were getting nuts, and did not know it was a “summonsing wood.”