Leeds Mercury – Tuesday 18 October 1938

Four Men Knocked Out

Thurnscoe Youth Alarms Railway Passengers

Found guilty at Wakefield to-day of molesting passengers in railway train travelling from Leeds to Wakefield, Horace Smith (19), haulage hand, of Lansdowne Avenue, Thurnscoe, was fined £2 and ordered to pay £2 1s. costs.

It was stated that Smith had knocked out four men.

Mr. P. B. Stapleford (for the Railway Company) said it appeared Smith had had trouble with a friend and threatened to fight anybody and to kill the man with whom he had had the trouble.

Inspector Robertshaw, of the Wakefield City Police, said he found the passengers at Kirkgate Station in state of alarm.

Smith had had some drink, but was not drunk. He was quarrelsome.