Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 24 October 1902

Alleged Highway Robbery at Goldthorpe

At the West Riding Police Court, Doncaster, on Wednesday, Samuel Parkinson, and Wm. Dewhurst, Goldthorpe miners, were charged with highway robbery with violence.

It was stated that a single woman named Agnes Oldfield of Thurnscoe was returning home about 10 o’clock the previous night, and when on the road between Goldthorpe and Thurnscoe she was attacked by prisoners, who took from her some wearing apparel and money.

P.c. Wordsworth apprehended prisoners at 2 a.m. the following morning, and in answer to the charge Dewhurst said he was a hundred yards away from Parkinson, whom he saw struggling with the girl on the ground.

Parkinson afterwards came up to him saying “Look what I have got,” and showed him the article, now produced.

The prosecutrix had been so badly treated that she was unable to appear, the prisoners ware remanded until Friday morning.