Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 04 May 1934

Dog Licence Round-up

A check of dog licences in the Mexborough district resulted in a batch of defendants being summoned at Doncaster on Saturday for having failed to fulfil the law’s requirements.

The defendants were as follows: Eva Holden, Joseph Jones, miner, both of Goldthorpe; James Henry Jarvis, miner, Fred Newton, hawker, Fred Whinfrey, grocer, George Herbert Hopkinson, butcher, Edwin Thompson, pit hand, Richard Thomas, miner, all of Thurnscoe; William Ernest Staton, farmer, of Clayton; George Cooke, miner, of Bolton-on-Dearne; Joseph Barker, miner, Charles Morley, showman, Mexborough; Thomas Barker Lockwood, miner, Conisboro’; John Frederick Brazier, Job Chapman, John Thomas Elks, Harry Parker, Charles Salmons, James Foster, all miners, and Thomas Burgess, motor driver, of Denaby; and William Scott, farmer, Old Denaby.

Staton, against whom there were summonses in respect of two dogs, was fined 10s. on each. Hopkinson, Elks and Foster, who had been previously fined for similar offences, were ordered to pay 15s. each, and the other defendants 10s. if they appeared, and 12s. in their absence.