Saturday June 28th, 1924
STONING A TRAIN
Prosecution at Milnthorpe
At the Milnthorpe Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before Messrs. J. F. Curwen (chairman), W. Peart Robinson, and W. B. Thornton. At a Children’s Court, three boys, all of Holme, were charged with throwing stones at a railway train at 7.20 p.m. on May 9. Inspector Walter Charles Reeves prosecuted for the L.M.S. Railway Company, and called Tom Atkinson, who said that he was the guard of the train to Windermere, due at Milnthorpe at 7.40 p.m., and as the train passed under a bridge about a mile south of that station he heard an unusual noise on the roof of his van. On looking out he saw three boys on the bridge, and on arrival at Milnthorpe station he reported the matter. – Oliver Sharp, porter, said that he telephoned Milnthorpe police station at once, and P.S. Downing said that he immediately cycled to Elmsfield, and on Pyes Bridge, which is 150 yards south of the bridge in question, he found the three boys. Witness looked over the parapet and saw the bodies of three half-fledged rooks, and a large number of stones of a different colour to the greasy ballast stones, lying on the permanent way. When questioned they all admitted throwing the stones at the train, and said that the rooks which they found in the hedge side, they tried to drop into a truck. The eldest boy was fined £1 and the other two were bound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months.
STONING A TRAIN
Prosecution at Milnthorpe
At the Milnthorpe Petty Sessions on Wednesday, before Messrs. J. F. Curwen (chairman), W. Peart Robinson, and W. B. Thornton. At a Children’s Court, three boys, all of Holme, were charged with throwing stones at a railway train at 7.20 p.m. on May 9. Inspector Walter Charles Reeves prosecuted for the L.M.S. Railway Company, and called Tom Atkinson, who said that he was the guard of the train to Windermere, due at Milnthorpe at 7.40 p.m., and as the train passed under a bridge about a mile south of that station he heard an unusual noise on the roof of his van. On looking out he saw three boys on the bridge, and on arrival at Milnthorpe station he reported the matter. – Oliver Sharp, porter, said that he telephoned Milnthorpe police station at once, and P.S. Downing said that he immediately cycled to Elmsfield, and on Pyes Bridge, which is 150 yards south of the bridge in question, he found the three boys. Witness looked over the parapet and saw the bodies of three half-fledged rooks, and a large number of stones of a different colour to the greasy ballast stones, lying on the permanent way. When questioned they all admitted throwing the stones at the train, and said that the rooks which they found in the hedge side, they tried to drop into a truck. The eldest boy was fined £1 and the other two were bound over to be of good behaviour for 12 months.
