South Yorkshire Times, December 2nd, 1932.

Hard Up

Thurnscoe Woman’s Market Theft

A theft of a pair of shoes from Goldthorpe Market on November 4th, resulted on Tuesday in Ethel Jones, married, Thurnscoe, appearing before the Doncaster county magistrates.

Supt. Minty told the Bench that Mrs. Ethel Beaumont, general dealer, Wombwell, had a stall in Goldthorpe market. On November 14th Mrs. Jones inspected a pair of shoes valued 3s. 11d., and told Mrs. Beaumont to put them aside for her. Later that day Mrs. Jones went back to the stall, and while Mrs. Beaumont was engaged with another customer, took the shoes. When charged last Friday she said, “It is right. I was hard up.”

Mrs. Jones, to the magistrates, said, “I never intended stealing them. I want to pay for them,” and her husband remarked. “She realised she has done a great wrong and assures me that she will not do this again.”

On Mrs. Jones promising to be of good behaviour, she was bound over for a year and ordered to pay costs.