Mexborough and Swinton Times March 29, 1929

Thurnscoe Girl Who Absconded.

A girl’s foolish trick was described to the Doncaster magistrates on Saturday, when Rosina Doris Perry (17), domestic servant, of 7, Halsbury Avenue, Thurnscoe, was charged with having obtained 1s. by false pretences from Ethel Jones, of 5, Stewart Street, Thurncoe East.

Police Insp. Taylor said the girl had been in the habit of picking coal on the Hickleton Main tip. On March 19th she called on Mrs. Jones and asked if she would buy a bag of coal. Mrs. Jones said she would, and gave Perry a shilling. The prisoner said she would fetch the coal, but did not do so.

Inquiries were made, and it was found that she had absconded from home. She was apprehended on March 21st, at her home, to which she had returned that day, and in reply to the charge she replied “I have nothing to say.”

The Chairman remarked that it was a very foolish thing to do.

It was stated that the prisoner had been bound over twice in 1926 for theft.

Perry said that when she left home she went to Doncaster to look for work, and slept out for two nights on the race common,

The case was adjourned for a month.