Conisborough Bookmaker Fined – Office Raided On Grand National Day

May 1936

Mexborough and Swinton Times May 15, 1936

Conisborough Bookmaker Fined
Office Raided On Grand National Day

Joseph J. Fitton, bookmaker, Conisbrough, was fined £10 at Doncaster West Riding Court on Saturday for keeping a betting house.

Prosecutor. Mr R. C. Linney said that the defendant had an office in Church Street, Conisbrough, for the purpose of betting. These premises were under observation by the police on April 24 and 25th and 26. During this period an average of about 20 people went to the office each day. The premises were raided on April 27, and the police found slips relating to 210 small bets ranging from 6d to 10s., and 8 pound 7s. 1d in cash.

Defendant who had three previous convictions said that the day the office was raided was a day of the Grand National, one of the biggest days in the year.

For resorting to the betting house Walter Smith (miner), Albert Wood (miner), Thomas O’Neill (Labour), and Ernest liversedge (glass worker) all of Conisbrough, were bound over for 12 months. Roland and Loxley, labourer, Maltby, who was charged with a similar offence, did not appear and a warrant was issued for his arrest.