Sheffield Evening Telegraph – Saturday 31 May 1919

Frederick William, who gave his address 3. Chesterfield Street, London, was charged with loitering.

Arthur Edwards, miner, Kilnhurst, proved that he put down to £2 on Will o the Wisp, and going for money the man had disappeared.

At 5.15 at night he saw prisoner at the railway station, and asked him to be a sport and give him his money. Some men came up and knocked prosecutor aside, but, later prisoner was apprehended by Detective Shaw, of Rotherham, for loitering.

Edwards said he identified prisoner by a mole on his cheek.

William Wood, miner, Swinton. said the prisoner was betting in the name of “G. Rogers, of Nottingham.”

There were twenty-seven previous convictions against the prisoner, and he was committed to prison for three months.

Asked if would return £4 to the prosecutor, prisoner refused and said he had a wife and couple of children.