Mexborough & Swinton Times, February 4, 1927

Lurking Dispomaniac.
A Conisborough discovery,

Fred Rollinson, an Armthorpe miner, was found by PC Lund hiding behind a tree in the grounds of the house of Mr John Dunk, secretary of the Denaby and Cadeby collieries, Ltd., at 12:40a.m. on Tuesday.

The same day he was charged at Doncaster with “being on enclosed premises for an unlawful purpose.

Asked by the Chairman (Mr J. Hinchliffe) what he was doing there, Rollingson’s only reply was: “we shall all live for ever.”

PC Inspector: Lumb said he had known Rollinson for 25 years. He knew him when he (inspector Lumb) was a young policeman at Woodhouse. The man’s weakness was drink. He was usually as they saw him then “half soaked”. Whenever he got drink he would go anywhere – into private grounds or anywhere out of the way of the police.

The inspector did not think Rollinson had any serious intention of committing a felony. Rollinson had 46 previous convictions. Asked when he last had drink Rollinson muttered: Yesterday. In reply to the further question “how much?” He said “two or three pints.”

The chairman said they considered it advisable to send him to prison for 14 days – and he would be able to get sober in the meantime.