LONDON’S WORST STREET

Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1932, Page 4

LONDON’S WORST STREET

. WOMEN ATTACK POLICE. Reference to London’s worst gambling street was made by an inspector at West London police-court recently. Three North Kensington men, George Shore, 45, Charles Buckingham, 44, and John Homans, 33, were being charged with gambling with other men in Porlock-street, North Kensington, on Sunday afternoon at a game called pieman. Inspector Dade said that with four other officers in plain clothes he raided the gamblers, who numbered between 30 and 40. When the three men were arrested a large hostile crowd gathered. Women came running out of houses with knives and saucepans, and a general attack was made on the police. “We had a pretty rough t’’me of it,” said the inspector, who added that this particular street was notorious for the gambling which took place there on Sunday afternoons. It was useless for a uniformed policeman to go there, because every house had its door open, and the moment a policeman appeared the gamblers rushed indoors.

“In my experience,” said the inspector, “this is about the worst street in London for this kind of offence.” Shore and Buckingham, who it. was stated, resisted arrest with violence, were fined 40/-, and Homans was fined 20/-.