Mexborough & Swinton Times February 14th, 1925.
Not a Joke
Denaby Offender Causes Trouble
Arthur Wright, a coloured miner, of Denaby, was summoned at Doncaster, on Tuesday, with being disorderly and refusing to quit licensed premises. He denied the offences. The prosecutor was William Isaac Gibbs, of the Denaby Main Hotel, and he was called to the dram shop on Feb. 7., and found Wright shouting and bawling, and causing a disturbance. He refused to leave the place when requested, and witness sent for P.c. Schofield, who removed Wright.
In reply to questions by Wright, Gibbs said Wright was not drunk, but was only showing ‘his nasty temper.’ He added that it was difficult to handle Wright because he had a bad leg, and there were some steps from the place. An accident might put witness in trouble, so he thought it wisest to send for a policeman.
R. Hodgetts, barman at the hotel, said Wright was fighting with another man and said he would not go out for witness, for ‘the master,’ or for the police. He was quite sober.
P.c. Schofield, said that Wright refused to leave the premises in witness’s presence, and he escorted him outside and advised him to go quietly home. Wright took the advice, and went without further trouble after he got outside, but he was very excited inside the hotel.
Wright said he was drinking a glass of beer when he was requested by Hodgetts to leave. He thought they were joking with him, as they always were, and said he would finish his beer first. He went at once when the policeman came.
Twelve previous convictions were recorded against Wright, eight of them for being drunk and disorderly, but he had not been convicted for seven years. Wright was fined 30 s.