"EAST END TERROR."
RACECOURSE RUFFIANISM. GAOL FOB BOOKIE'S " MINDER. ' LONDON. August 22. > A new trade, "'bookmaker's minder," has sprung up as a result of the ruffianism on racecourses. Aaron Jacobs was sentenced to three months' hard labour at Whiteehapel as a suspected person. He was seen at Hurst Park parading between an avenue of bookmakers with the handle of a hatchet protruding from his jacket pocket. \Vhen arrested he said that the hatchet was intended for chopping the points of stakes displaying bookmakers' names. A bookmaker testified that Jacobs worked with him for months, and .was always trustworthy. He was "a minder— looking after mc," he said. The police prosecutor, producing a list of convictions, sa-id that Jacobs was known as the East End Terror.
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Auckland Star, Volume LII, Issue 206, 30 August 1921, Page 5
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