Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Monday 16 August 1909
Youthful Conisborough Offenders Caught.
On Saturday, Thomas Fisher, pony driver, Denaby, and William Peasehall, pony driver. New Conisbro’, were charged by Inspector Hall with throwing stones on the G.C. Railway at Conisbro’.
Mr. Hall said the defendants had been indulging in very dangerous practice. Some time ago an engine driver was so seriously injured by a stone flung at a train he was driving that he had to be removed from his engine and have his eye attended to by a medical man. On another occasion a man had his spectacles broken in the same way, whilst several carriage windows had been broken, and complaints had been made by passengers.
Defendants were liable to a fine of £5. Peasehall was fined 5s. and 8s 6d. costs, and Fisher, who had been previously convicted, 10s. and costs.