Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 25 January 1918

Caught In Clubhouse

At Doncaster yesterday, John Gibbons, a soldier, who said he was from Hull; William’ Frost, miner, Edlington; and Charles Henry Guy, miner, Goldthorpe, were charged with breaking into the golf pavilion at Hickleton on the previous night, and stealing a number of articles to the value of £13 11s 2d.,

Superintendent Minty. in asking for a remand, said that at 11.45 on 17 January the men were found in the golf house, and among the articles they were charged with stealing were five men’s jackets, three ladies’ wool jackets, seven pairs of men’s boots, four linen table cloths, half a dozen dessert knives, 34 golf balls, a sent.’s brush and umbrella, belonging to members of the club, Since the prisoners were remanded the police had been making further inquiries respecting them with the result that they were further charged with stealing a chisel from the blacksmith’s shop at Marr, and 20 fowls at Marr, the property of Mr. A. H. Cooke, farmer.

The prisoners were committed for trial at the Quarter Sessions on the first charge, and Frost was committed on the second.

Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Friday 18 January 1918

At the Doncaster West Riding Court, yesterday, John Gibbons, a soldier, who said he was from Hull; William’ Frost, miner, Edlington; and Charles Henry Guy, miner, Goldthorpe, were charged with breaking into the golf pavilion at Hickleton on the previous night, and stealing a number of articles. Superintendent Minty. in asking for a remand, said that at 11.45 on the previous night the men were found in the golf house, and among the articles they were charged with stealing were five men’s jackets, three ladies’ wool jackets, seven pairs of men’s boots, four linen table cloths, half a dozen dessert knives, 34 golf balls, gent’s brush and umbrella, belonging to members of the club.

The men were remanded for a week.