Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 16 May 1911

At Rotherham yesterday. George Henry Jones, trammer, of Rawmarsh, was fined 10s., including costs, for having stolen jacket value 2s. 6d., the property of John Kelso, miner, Mexborough, at the Thrybergh Hall Colliery, Kilnhurst, on May 11th.

Defendant took the coat and left his own, a very old one. The defence was that the coat had been taken in mistake.

Sheffield Independent – Tuesday 16 May 1911

The Wrong Coat

George Henry Jones, trammer, Rawmarsh, pleaded not guilty at Rotherham, yesterday, on a charge stealing cost, valued at 2s 6d, property John Kelso, miner, of 82 Dolcliffe road. Mexbro’, on 11 May, from the drift at the Thrybergh Hall Colliery, Kilnhurst.

Jones had taken the coat from a prop, where it was hung up, and it was found at his home by Police-constable Headland.

He explained to the constable that he had brought it home in mistake, and this was he his defence, adding that he intended to return it. He was fined 10s., including costs.