Mexborough and Swinton Times October 4, 1929

Thurnscoe Boy’s Foolish Act.

At Doncaster on Saturday, Wilfred Cookson (16), engine driver, of Thurnscoe, was charged with having stolen a pigeon bath valued at a shilling, belonging to Samuel Exley,

Supt. Minty said the prosecutor usually kept the bath underneath his pigeon cote. At 5 p.m. on September 20th he saw it there, but it was missing at 3 p.m. on the 24th, and he reported the loss to the police. It was ascertained that Cookson had sold the bath to a man. When seen by Pc,. Stones on September 25th, the boy said. “I found it in the field and I have sold it to a man.”

The boy’s mother a widow, said only be and another son were working, and she had three children not working.

The Chairman (Ald. G. Probert), said the costs amounted to nearly £2. but owing to his mother’s circumstances the boy would have to pay only 5s. towards the costs.