South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 29 August 1942

After Nine Pints

Rough Night at Swinton

Joseph Henry Parham (28), labourer, of 4. Hanover Square, Thurnscoe, was charged at Rotherham, on Monday, with having obstructed a guard at certain works at Swinton, with illegal entry, and with having been drunk and disorderly on the night of June 25th.

A sergeant of the guard, Fred West, said Parham had been employed at the works as a labourer. Parham tried to force his way into the works, and the sergeant told him he was not in a fit state, and asked him to go home. Parham turned round and struck him. They both fell to the ground. Later the man was got off the premises; he returned, but did not attempt to enter. He threw his works pass into the yard. Still later in the night Parham was found climbing over a wire fence, trying to get into the grounds. He was mad drunk.

Parham, in a statement to the magistrates, said he went with some friends to a licensed house, where he had nine pints of beer When he got outside he did not know what he was doing.

The defendant was fined £3 for obstruction, £2 for illegal entry, and 10s. for being drunk and disorderly, and costs, making the total £18 10s., with an alternative of 14 days’ imprisonment. He was allowed 28 days in which to pay the fine and costs