DISTRICT TERRORISED

Wairarapa Times-Age, 17 October 1938, Page 3

DISTRICT TERRORISED

ACTIVITIES OF HOOLIGANS. Known to the police, to his associates, and to cafe proprietors in the district, as “the Fulham Terror,” 28-year-old Arthur Dobley will not trouble the locality for the next few months. At West London he was accused of smashing two windows, valued at £4O, at a safe in North-End Roaxt Fulham. He was -sentenced to six months’ imprisonment. It was stated that 14 men sat and watched him smash the windows, but they were afriad to intervene. . Detective Frank Hulcombe declared: “This man. is feared throughout the locality. He invariably carries a razor. He is a member of a gang of hooligans who terrorise cafe proprietors and shopkeepers. “After eating at cafes they leave without paying, the proprietors being afraid to protest for fear of having their premises wrecked. “Dobley smashed these windows because he was refused admission to the cafe.” Dobley’s 70-year-old widowed mother later told a reporter: “He’s was always a good boy to me. He was only two when his father died and he got in with a nasty lot of youngsters who made him drink. Once he’s had a few drinks he’s not his own master.”