Mexborough and Swinton Times, May 31, 1929

Stolen Hen Egg.

Swinton Boy Bound Over.

A thirteen-year-old Swinton boy was, at Rotherham West Riding Juvenile Police Court on Tuesday, bound over for 12 months for having stolen a hen egg, valued 1 ½ d, the property of Walter Royston, farmer, of Church Farm, Swinton, on May 26th.

P.c. Colley said he was concealed on Royston’s tarm, when he saw the boy take an egg from the fowlhouse. He asked him where he had put the egg, and searched him, finding the egg in his pocket.

The boy, in court, said he had to get through a bedroom window to avoid a thrashing from his father, who, when told of the theft, went into a raving temper.