PRISON FOR WOMAN WHO OUTLINED PROPOSAL
Mr. Albert Edward Hankey was a professional goalkeeper for Southend United.
They were playing at home on November 12th when he received a message that a woman wished to see him.
Later he received another message to go to the Southend railway station where he would see a taxi driver who would be wearing a white handkerchief on his arm. He did so where the woman told him that her father was a director of Glasgow Rangers and that he would get him his transfer to that club for £4,000.
They journeyed north by taxi to his home in Hanley and then continued to Glasgow the next day. At Westmoreland the woman who had already obtained £3 from Hankey tried to obtain another £8.
In court Hankey stated that he had a professional engagement with the Southend club and did not think it necessary to tell his manger Mr. David Jack that he was going to Glasgow.
The woman who had no connections with the Glasgow club, had 28 previous convictions for fraud was sent to prison for six months.
From the Southend Standard 24th November 1938.
Extract from "Southend United Under the Shadow of War"
by Peter William Baker to be published later this year