South Yorkshire Times, January 26th, 1934
Mexborough Woman’s Night Out
A Mexborough widow of 53 made her 68th appearance in a police court at Rotherham, on Wednesday. Kate Pugh, also known as Kate Cocking, 29, Simpson’s Place, Mexborough, was summoned for having been drunk and disorderly in Broad Street, Parkgate, on Wednesday.
P.c. Marsh said that at 12.45 a.m. he was in Broad Street with P.s. Lamb and P.c. Graham when they found Pugh in a drunken condition and making use of obscene language. He asked her who she was and what she was doing there and she answered “You go to hell, and find out.” She fell to the ground, continued using obscene language and commenced kicking. All the way to the police station she used obscene language. When told she would be reported she answered, “I have been having a night out.”
Supt. W. T. Kay said Pugh had 67 convictions for that kind of offence which had been committed all over the country. Her last conviction was June 1933, when she was convicted of obtaining a widow’s pension by fraud.
She was fined £2 or a month and told to sign the pledge.