INDEX

Advertising Act (1874), 211

Albert Club, case against, 143

Allen (Russell), Manchester Evening News, evidence before Lords’ Commission, 208

Allotments, a counter-attraction to public-houses, 184

Alverstone (Lord Chief-Justice), on betting and gambling, 215

Anti-gambling League, National, recommendations made by, 205

Anti-social desires, gambling induces, 13

Art Unions, 139

Ascot Heath, betting shed, 21

Athletic grounds, betting at, 197

Australian licensed bookmakers, 193

Automatic machines, gambling by, 137

Averages, law of, 103

Bain (J.), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210

Bank Act, 1867, restrains speculation in bank shares, 147

proposed extension of restriction to all stocks and shares, 159

Bank of England and National Debt, 46

Bankruptcy, betting a cause of, 90

Bath, Recorder of (Mr. H. C. Folkard), on effects of gambling, 216

Battenberg, Prince Louis of, on effects of gambling, 216

Bazaar raffles illegal, but not subjected to prosecution, 139

Beaconsfield (Lord), on the turf, 168

Bell, M.P. (Richard), on gambling, 217

Bennett (Curtis), on street betting, 214

Beresford (Lord Charles), on gambling, 38, 215

Beston, exposed by Truth, 225

Betting-house Act (1853), 24, 199

amendments suggested by Lords’ Commission, 196

amendments proposed to, 156

coupon gambling outside the meaning of the Act, 140

effect of, 191

new decision re, 140

Betting-houses abroad evade the Act, 142

Betting Act (1874), 199, 202

Lords’ suggested amendments to, 196

Betting and Loans (Infants’) Act (1892), 197

Lords’ suggested amendments to, 201

Betting at athletic grounds, 197

Betting, legislation against, 148

proposed Bill, 156

Betting statistics, 232

Bill, proposed street betting, 156

Bill, to make bets in public-houses illegal, 157

Birmingham, Official Receiver, on street betting, 214

Bookmakers, appeal against bye-laws, 205

army of, 28

street, 195

suppression of, would extinguish betting, 204

turnover of, 28

Bradford School Board, resolution on betting, 214

Bridge-playing, 40

Brighton, scene on the race-course, 32

Bros (Mr.), London Stipendiary Magistrate, embezzlement caused by gambling, 214

Bucknill (Justice), on betting and gambling, 217

“Bulling and Bearing” on the Stock Exchange, 59

Butcher, M.P. (J. G.), on gambling, 216

Bye-laws against betting, Municipal and County, 154

Campbell-Bannerman (Sir Henry), on gambling, 218

Card-playing, 136

Cards, gambling with, 40

Cash-betting stopped, 25

Certainties, betting on, 2

Chances all for the bank, 3

Chester Cup Race (1852), 25

Children betting, 203

Chisholm (Lord Provost of Glasgow), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Citizenship, gambling and, 116

Civil Service, gambling in, 37

Clubs, gambling, 143, 163

Commons, House of, Select Committee on Betting and Gambling (1844), 23

Coroner for Mid-Surrey and backing horses, 214

Cost of Stock Exchange dealing, 66

Cottage, a week’s betting transactions in a working man’s, 80

Counter-attractions from gambling, 183

County authorities, bye-laws of, 154

Coupon-gambling, 140, 162

Crime and gambling (Canon Horsley), 85

Criminal Procedure (Scotland) Act (1887), 202

Croydon Bench, chairman of, re gambling, 215

Daily Mail, racing tips, 106

Daily News, week’s betting results, 180

Daily settlement of bets, 23

Darling (Mr. Justice), re betting, 213

Davey’s Street Betting Bill 1903, Lord, 199

Davis v. Stoddart, deposit of money for betting illegal, 153

Dealings before allotment forbidden 56

Devonshire, Duke of, re betting, 166

Evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211

Doncaster Grand Stand, 21

Downes v. Johnson, Gambling Club Case, 143

Durham Lord, on tipsters, 222

Education, more adequate, to counteract gambling tendency, 185

Embezzlement due to betting, 30, 88

Epsom, 22

Field, The, strictures on racing, 32

Fielding v. Turner, decision re gambling by machines, 138

Fines for betting, recommendation by Lords’ Commission, 195

“Fish-ponds” illegal lotteries, 139

Flat-racing and tipsters, 225

Fludyer, Colonel, evidence of, 206

Fox’s gambling habits, 125

France, Government of, and press gambling, 143

Gambling—

definition, 1

by automatic machines, 137

clubs, 143, 163

clubs and the Licensing Act (1903), 144

coupon, 140, 162

organised Sunday, 147

pure and mixed, 1

repression of, 170

Gaming, industrial, 159

machines, 137, 160

Giffen, Sir Robert, estimate of bookmaker’s profits, 31

Gissing, George, description of Turf ruffianism, 34

Glasgow, betting in workshops, 29

Chief Constable’s evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Lord Provost’s evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Globe and Liberation Companies, 18

Goodwood, 22

Gould, J.P. (Chas.), Epsom, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 208

Grantham, Mr., Justice, on gambling, 213

Halsbury, Lord Chancellor, Powell v. Kempton Park, 150

Harrow, Master of, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 207

Hawke, John, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 203

on gambling, 218

Hawkins, Mr. Justice, on betting, 213

decision in Hawke v. Dunn, 149

Hawkins, Mr. Justice, decision in Jenks v. Turpin, 164

Hereford, Bishop of, betting among women, 71

Herschell’s Act, Lord, 197

Hodgman, George, Sixty years on the Turf, 35

Holland, Admiral Swinton, gambling at sports, 216

Hope, Adrian, and the anti-gambling league, 161

Horsley, Rev. J. W., evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 212

on tipsters, 234

House-to-house betting, 72

Hulton, junr., Edward, evidence before the Lords’ Committee, 210

Hunter, Sir Robert, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211

Illegal games, 136, 159

Immorality of gambling, 9

Increase of betting, present, 26

Industrial gaming unconnected with trade, 159

“Jail, Jottings from,” 84

Japan, gamblers ostracised, 43

Jenks v. Turpin, 164

Jockey Club and betting, 115

cash betting, 26

and tipsters, 223

Powell v. Kempton Park, 157

Joint Stock Company Law Amendment, is ineffective, 64

Kingsley, Charles, letter to young men on betting and gambling, 179

Knight, J.P. (Robert), evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 211

women betting, 72

Lamb, Charles, 11

Lamb, Mr., Second Secretary Post Office, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 210

Lambeth, workshop betting in, 29

Law of gambling, 135

Law relating to betting, 135

Law, suggested amendments in betting, 155

Leeman’s Act (1866) stops speculation in bank shares, 62

Lefroy, Dean, on Bridge, 80

Legislation as to gambling, existing, 135

Lennox v. Stoddart, deposit of money for betting illegal, 153

Liberator and Globe Companies, 18

Licence for bookmakers, 111

Licensed bookmakers in Australia, 193, 194

Licensing Act (1903), 144

and gambling, 204

Limited Liability Act (1862) increases stock gambling, 50

Liverpool, Bishop of (Dr. Chavasse), on betting, 215

London, Common Serjeant of, on betting, 217

Lords, House of, Report of Committee (1844), 27

Select Committee of (1901-2), Report, 28, 38

summary of, 203

betting among artisans, 155

press and betting, 166

recommendations of, 191

women gamblers, 69

Loria and elections, 127

Lotteries abolished, public, 138

and sweepstakes, 138, 161

newspaper, protected by 8 & 9 Vict. c. 74; 140

put down by Parliament, 63

Lowther, M.P., James; evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 209

Luck in gambling, 8

Luton Town Councillors and betting, 215

Machines, gaming, 137

Maclaren, Ian, on Bridge, 81

Magistrates, a Chairman of, on embezzlement and betting, 214

Manchester, Chief Constable, evidence before the Lords’ Commission, 206

Marginal groups, gambling prevails among people classed in, 118

Miscellaneous gambling, 23

Monte Carlo tables average daily profit, £500, 181

Moseley Commission, 155

Municipal bye-laws against betting, 154

National Debt, stockbroking begins with, 46

Newmarket betting-posts, 22

Newspaper lotteries protected by 8 and 9 Vict. c. 74; 140

Newspapers encourage small betting, 113

Odds against the backer, 104

One pound shares and Stock Exchange gambling, 51

“Options,” 56

“Pari Mutuel,” 193, 194

Pauperism, betting next to intemperance a cause of, 91

Pedestrianism, a note on, 219

Petit Parisien, competition forbidden in, 142

Philip of Macedon and gambling, 124

Play a factor in life, 11

Police abet gambling in clubs, 145

Portland, Duke of, about tipsters, 135

Postmaster-General, powers re betting circulars, 197

Post Office, monetary interest in betting of the, 31

powers over lottery matter, 141

proposed increase of powers, 161

Powell v. Kempton Park, 149, 154

Press competitions and coupon gambling, 140, 142, 143, 162

gives facilities for betting, 191

Prisons and Provinces, 84

Produce Exchange gambling, 41

Prohibitive Acts insufficient to prevent gambling, 130

Property, right of, 4

Public excluded from betting circles, the general, 22

Public-houses, proposed Bill to make betting in, illegal, 157

Public opinion, the necessity for creating a sound, 174

Pure gambling, 16

Race-horses, poisoning of, 210

Raffles, Government inaction in the matter of, 176

really illegal, 139

Rawson, Admiral, on gambling, 38, 216

Remedy, bookmaker’s suggestions for a remedy, 110

Renals, Alderman Sir J., on street betting, 215

Repression of gambling, 170

Richmond, the Duke of, on cash betting, 26

Ridley, Mr. Justice, on betting, 217

Roulette, 137

Russell, Chief-Justice, on street betting, 213

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

York, Archbishop of, on gambling, 217

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