South Yorkshire Times – December 30, 1932
The Casualty List
Toll of Pit, Road and River
July.
9—Thomas Axe (46), road sweeper, Mexboro’, died in hospital following scratch on eye: Accidental death.
19—Lily Croft (9), Conisboro’, knocked down by motor-car: Accidental death.
17—Sarah Hill (58), married, Denaby, found gassed at home: Suicide white of unsound mind.
28—Thomas Robinson steward, Wombwell Conservative Club, died in Beckett Hospital, following septic arm: Death due to accident to elbow.
August.
2—Sydney Pugh (15), haulage hand, Denaby, fell from bridge on to L.N.E.R. line at Denaby Accidental death.
7—Michael Coffin (66), by-product worker, Brampton, collapsed at work at Cortonwood: Heart disease.
15—Louisa Lee (62), Goldthorpe, body recovered from canal at Swinton: Suicide in fit of depression
19—Frank Hillerby (60) tobacconist, Mexborough, killed in cross-roads motoring smash near Ferrybridge: Accidental
25—Michael Burke (35), miner, Wombwell, found dead in outbuilding: Asphyxiation
26—Arthur Monks (35), miner, Goldthorpe, killed by fall of roof in Hickleton Main: Accidental death.
September.
10— John William Cook (71) former plate layer Mexboro’, found, on death in West Riding Mental Hospital, Wakefield, to have fourteen ribs broken: Open verdict
17—John Calderbank (31), commission agent, Goldthorpe, and William Marsh (28) Skellow, fatally injured while motorcycling at Pontefract: Accidental death.
Harold Bowes (28), Thurnscoe, recovered from Dearne: Open verdict.
28 — Thomas Arthur Steer (38), miner, Thurnscoe, found hanging: Suicide while of unsound mind.
October.
7— John James Gillespie (33), miner, Wath, buried by burst of soft coal from sides at Manvers Main : Accidental death.
Robert John Saxton (27), Kilnhurst struck by flying chain of crane: Accidental death.
10—Robert John Sussan (40), killed by fall of roof at Hickleton Main: Accidental death.
11—Wilfred Whitehouse (39), caretaker-operator, Mexboro’ Post Office, found gassed: Suicide while of unsound mind.
November.
23—Decapitated body of Friend Diggles unemployed Swinton, miner, found on L.N.E. Railway, Mexboro’: Suicide while of unsound mind.
December.
7—Stephen Willis (26), Wath, killed while motor-cycling in Bolton Road, Swinton: Accidental death
11—Thomas Shannon (36), inmate of Rotherham Institution, formerly of Wath, found in canal at Rotherham: Found drowned.
13—Arthur Holmes (60), miner, Denaby, fatally injured while trying to escape from fall at Denaby Main: Accidental death