Gambling; Great Britain -- Social life and customs
Rutzen, Sir Alfred de, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 90, 206
Salford, embezzlements in, 20
Schools and betting, 214, 215
Scotland Yard, conviction of three inspectors of, 85
Secret gambling in modern commerce, 19
Shannon, Superintendent Metropolitan Police, evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 208
Sharp, Luke, on women betting, 71
evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207
Signalmen as bookmakers, 36
_Sixty Years on the Turf_, by George Hodgman, 35
“Small man” in stock and share gambling, 52
Smith, Horace, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207
embezzlement caused by betting, 213
Social disease, gambling a, 119
Souch, Charles, gambling at athletic clubs, 219
Southampton, Church Congress on betting, 214
Sport, betting in connection with, 39
_Sportsman_ prosecuted, 141, 156
_Sportsman, The Deluded_, by a Bookmaker, 92
Spruce, F. W., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207
Starting-price bookmaker, 112
Starting-price odds, 166, 192, 204
Stephen, Sir Fitzjames, on betting agents, 205
Stephenson, Sir W. H., gambling among boys, 147
Stock Exchange gambling, 41, 45, 147, 158
_Stoddart_ v. _Sagar_, Decision _re_ coupon gambling, 140
Street betting, 203
Street betting, “a respectable trade,” 208
Street Betting Bill (Lord Davey’s), 199
Street bookmakers, 195
“Street” defined as in Public Health Act (1875), 201
Stutfield, G. H., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 203
Suicide resulting from gambling, 86
Supports of gambling, real, 12
Sutters, James, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207
Sutton, Alderman (Newcastle), on betting, 214
Sweepstakes, 138, 161
“Systems” in gambling, 8, 224
Tattersall’s Subscription Rooms established, 21
Thomas, Bryan, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209
Tipsters’ advertisements, suppression of, 114, 222
and the Jockey Club, 223
“Totalisator,” its introduction suggested, 193, 194
Trevelyan, Lady, on Bridge, 41
Trevelyan, Sir George, gambling as it affects politics, 125
_Truth_ on turf tipsters, betting agents, and system-mongers, 224
“Vendors’ shares,” their part in share gambling, 58
Village betting, 31
Wages to working men, better; a counter influence to gambling, 185
Walker, Colonel Tannett evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210
Watts, G. F., on betting and gambling, 218
Wavell, General, on gambling, 38, 214
Wells, Superintendent of Limehouse Division, evidence before the Lords’
Commission, 208
White, Sir George, on gambling, 38, 218
Wills, Mr. Justice, on illegitimate speculation, 213
Women bookmakers, 70, 218
Women, gambling among, 69, 203
worse gamblers than men, 73
Woodgate, W. B., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210
Workshops, betting in Glasgow, 29
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