Mexborough and Swinton Times May 20, 1892
Swinton Local Board Property Damaged
John Hammond, boat hauler, Walter Hammond, labourer. John Smith, trammer, Charles Henry Dunhill, labourer, Joseph Bentley, pony driver, Eli Fowler, glass hand, Joseph Jackson, foundry hand, John Sykes, pit corporal, George Chester, Potter, Samuel Griffiths, miner, and John Cavill, miner, were summoned for having destroyed cabbages, on the Swinton Local Board’s sewage farm, on the 10th.
Mr F. L. Harrop, clerk to the Swinton Local Board, prosecuted.
He explained that the defendants, in order to evade the police who were pursuing them for another offence, crossed the land on which the vegetables were growing. The damage was laid at 3d. each.
- c.’s Shuttleworth and Hewitt gave evidence.
Defendants were ordered to pay the damage and costs, and fines ranging from 1s. to .5s. were also imposed.