Yorkshire evening Post April 13, 1917

Curious Story in Theft Charge

At Doncaster today, Wilfred Dawson, miner, Wath, was charged with receiving a large sum of money from Mary Ellen Dyson, of Barnsley, knowing it to be stolen.

On Wednesday Dyson was charged for the Borough magistrates at Doncaster, with the theft of £65 note from John Thomas Glenn Hall, of the Market Place, Tickhill. She stated that she gave the money to Dawson, who disappeared, and she had not seen him since. He had promised to share the money with her.

Dyson was remanded till Monday, and yesterday Dawson was apprehended at Wath, and handed over to the Doncaster police.

It was stated in court today, that when confronted with the woman in the police office Dawson said all that he got was £40. He gave two £5 pound notes to a man in Young St, Doncaster, and another £5 note he sold at Barnsley for £2. He gave the woman back £25.

The prisoner was remanded till Monday, when he will be brought up with the woman.

Leeds Mercury April 17, 1917

A Night in Doncaster
Story of a Man Who Missed His Banknotes

A charge of having stolen £65 from John Thomas Glenn Hall, of the Marketplace, Tickhill, was preferred, at Doncaster yesterday against Mary Ellen Dyson, who belongs to Barnsley, and was described as a domestic servant of no fixed abode. Wilfred Dawson, a miner, of New Hill, near Wath, was charged with having received £15 of the money, knowing it to have been stolen.

Prosecutors story was that on March 20 he came into Doncaster, and drew 14 £5 notes from the National Provincial Bank, money due to him for compensation. He change one note for his dinner, and put the rest in his bank book. At the horse and Groom he met the prisoner Dyson and play dominoes with her and two men, and later, at 8.30, she ordered a for him in which he left the house. He had had some drink.

He went to the Alma with two men, old there left in, and from there he went to another house nearby, where he stayed all night. He missed his money and informed the police.

The woman’s story was that the book containing the notes fell out of the prosecutor’s pocket, and she picked it up. She gave all the money to Dawson, and he promised to share it with her, but went away, and she did not seem again. He sent her £1 to an address at Barnsley.

The bench sent both prisoners to jail for six months. The woman fainted on hearing the sentence.