Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 29 January 1929

At Doncaster yesterday, Joseph Bennett (59), a Thurnscoe miner, was sent to prison, for one month for having been drunk and disorderly at Thurnscoe on Saturday night, and to six months for having assaulted Police-constable, France, the sentences to run concurrently.

It was alleged that he said he would shoot the policeman when he came out of prison.

Sheffield Independent – Tuesday 29 January 1929

Joseph Bennett Thurnscoe, miner, against whom were 57 previous convictions, was at Doncaster, yesterday sent to prison for one month for having been drunk and disorderly on Saturday night at Thurnscoe, and six months tor assaulting Police-constable France, the sentences to run concurrently