Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 17 October 1930

A Candid Offender.

61 Convictions.

Summoned at Doncaster West Riding Police Court on Tuesday for being drunk and disorderly. Joseph Bennett, miner, of Goldthorpe said to the Bench “I know nothing about it. I was that drunk.”

It was stated that at 10-55 p.m. on Sept. 12th, defendant was found by two police officers, lying in a shop doorway, he started to use bad language.

Asked whether he had any previous convictions defendant replied “Oh, I have been drunk a lot of times.” The police records showed sixty previous convictions.

The Chairman: Yon are still going on with your old habits.

Defendant: Well I have got to do something. I cannot get any work.

The Chairman: You will have to pay 25s. This is sixty-one now.

When refused time in which to pay the fine, defendant said “All right, I will go down again.”