Mexborough and Swinton Times, June 7, 1929

Mexboro’ Lads in Trouble In Leeds.

Two Mexborough youths—Sidney Peplow (19), of Kirby Street, and Albert Birkett (19), of High Street, were charged before the Leeds Stipendary Magistrate on Monday with being disorderly and refusing to quit licensed premises, and also with doing wilful damage.

Mr. R. C. Davies, prosecuting, said that on April 29th a boxing exhibition was held in the Leeds Town Hall, and during an interval Peplow and Birkett, along with a number of other people, visited the Jubilee Hotel, Park Lane. A discussion arose among the customers with regard to two men who had been boxing at the Town Hall. The two accused were asked to stop using bad language and leave Mlle premises. Instead of doing so one knocked two dozen glasses off a table and then banged a table on the floor, breaking one of the able legs.

Mrs. L. Beckett, wife of the licensee, said both defendants were sober but much excited. Apart from the damage done to glasses a table and a stool the house suffered a loss of trade on the night in question because they had to close the doors before ten o’clock.

The Stipendary Magistrate fined defendants 20s. and 30s, damages, with the alternative of one month’s imprisonment.