Mexborough & Swinton Times – Friday 01 April 1932 (Page 12)

Street Betting at Goldthorpe

Bookmaker’s Renewed Vow

Stated to have been fined £5 previously for a similar offence, Chas. F. Dobbs, miner, Goldthorpe, was fined £5 at Doncaster on Wednesday for loitering for the purpose of betting in High Street, Goldthorpe, last Saturday.

P.c. Edley said he was in plain clothes with P.c. Baldwin on Saturday, when he saw defendant. Several people went up to him and handed him slips. When witness approached him, he commenced to run but witness gave chase and caught him.  Dobbs had on him when searched £4 1s 10d in money, eight slips relating to 24 bets, as well as two betting books.

Mr. W. Lindsay Crawford, defending, entered a plea of guilty and added that Dobbs had promised to give up the practice which he had carried on occasionally because he had been out of work for the last two years.

Defendant admitted that he was working for a bookmaker.