| Description | Summary conviction of Edward Johnson for collecting alms by falsely pretending that he was a miner at Black Brook Colliery, and that on 2 June 1869 he had been injured there in an explosion by fire damp when nine men, four boys and three horses were burned to death, and others severely injured, and when the colliery had been made unfit for working for some time
Offence committed at the township of Ruswarp on 3 February 1870
Whitby Strand - case heard at Whitby |