Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Saturday 03 December 1927

Theft from Railway.

Jack Mason (25), labourer, and William Unwin (54), colliery surface worker, both of Goldthorpe. were charged on remand at Doncaster yesterday in connection with the theft of nut chocolate cakes, value £7, from the L.M.S. Railway at Goldthorpe, the former with stealing and the latter with receiving the goods.

The goods were in transit from Goole to Goldthorpe, and on November 15th were reported missing. The police found some of the goods at Mason’s house. Both men were apprehended, and at first denied knowledge of the theft, but had since made voluntary statement admitting their guilt and implicating another man.

Previous convictions were recorded against the prisoners, and they were committed to prison for three months.