Sheffield Daily Telegraph – Tuesday 03 April 1877

Serious Results of Furious Driving.

Edward Baker, butcher, Braithwell, was charged by Police-constable Baker with furiously driving on the highway at Denaby the 24th ult.

Police constable Baker said that on the day in question he was on duty in Denaby village in company with Police-constable Hutcheson, when heard a horse and trap coming at a rapid pace from the direction of Mexborough. It was galloping at a furious rate. Shortly afterwards a horse came up that had got loose from a trap, and had some broken harness upon it. They stopped the horse, and a man afterwards appeared in search of it. He said that he had been driven into, that his trap was upset, and that he was hurt very badly.

Police-constable Hutcheson and Alfred Martin, innkeeper, Manvers Main (the man who was run into), gave corroborative testimony.

The defendant was fined 40s. and costs.