Sidney Wolfson

'Alleged petrol offence: Six Glasgow men on trial', Glasgow Herald, 8 October 1942. Among the accused were Isaac Jesner, Louis Jesner and George Jesner. their accomplices included Hyman Slonimsky, Hyman Cohen, Jack Levy, Joseph McCrum and Sidney Wolfson.

Two years sentence for Glasgow man.

Sidney Wolfson (born 1907 in Cathcart (Lanark), died at 80 in 1988 at Glasgow, Martha St).

Son of Alexander Wolfson (died at 72 in 1954 in Pollok) and Bessie Wolson (nee Margolyes), who married in 1907 in the Gorbals

Timeline

• 1955 - BUSINESSMAN JAILED . For defrauding the Industrial Discount Company, Ltd of London. of £6820, Sidney Wolfson, 'a Glasgow businessman was at Glasgow High Court yesterday sentenced to two years' imprisonment. The jury by a majorily, re(urntd’ a verdict of not proven on remaining charges involving sums amounting to £16,682, The trial had lasted 17 days - the longest High Court trial in Glasgow. There were more than 400 witnesses.
• 1955 - Four of the witnesses have died - A trial in which over 400 witnesses are expected to give evidence opened before Lord Migdale at Glasgow High Court yesterday. Sidney Wolfson, Glasgow businessman, pleaded not guilty to a charge that while acting with another man, in custody in Edinburgh, he defrauded a London firm, the Industrial Discount Co., Ltd., of £23.502. The indictment alleged that Wolfson entered into an agreement with the company regarding a hire purchase scheme, and sent fictitious names of people who were stated to have bought furniture and other goods on hire purchase. Mr D. W. R. Brand, advocate depute, for the prosecution, said that 21 of 445 witnesses previously cited would not appear. Some of them were out of the country, and four had since died.
• 1952 - SIDNEY WOLFSON, 10 Cheviot Road, Newlands, Glasgow—Creditors will meet In the Faculty Hall, St. George's Place, Glasgow, on September 5, at 2 noon. —Richard H. Barclay. 205 St Vincent Street, Glasgow, agent.
• 1952 - EDINBURGH GAZETTE NOTICES PETITIONS For sequestration of the estates of SIDNEY WOLFSON, 10 Cheviot Road, Newlands, Glasgow.
• 1942 - An associate on the Jesner family in an illegal enterprise in the 1940s, with the address of 10 Cheviot Road, Glasgow.
• 1940 - Valuation records record him living as a tenant at 10 Cheviot Road, with Mrs Eva Wolfson.
• 1938 - JEWISH NATIONAL FUND ANNIVERSARY BAZAAR Sixth List of Donations Amount prev. acknowledged .. £ll6B 1 0 Fron} Meat Market, per Mr. Jacobs, A 5 i Lyt TSRO L 0! Mr. and Mrs. M. Caplan 028 T A Messrs. E. Green & Sons 4 5 5 0 Mr. Saul Bercott T s 5 5.0 Mrs. Joseph Sachs i 5 HHESHEQ Mr. and Mrs. Albert Stone .. S 0480 Mrs. Joseph Caplan & Sons SOO Mrs. P. Woolfson o A 330 Messrs. Stirling Ltd. .. L 3 3 0 Mr. and Mrs. Barnet Merrens 210 O Mr. and Mrs. H. Levitus, i 2 2.0 Mrs. E. Goldberg L 1 ) DEE 2 () Dr. E. Yonace ... A e 2 2 0 Mr. J. Mellick, M.A., LLB. .. 2.2 0 M. W AT IS 5 A 2250 Mrs. H. Shulman i 4 2L 2 L 0 Mrs. 1. Bernstein, Dunfermline 248280 Mr. M. Greenberg L st AR Anonymous, per Mrs. Binnie .. RO () Dr. E. Gelfer A 208 4 105 i Mr. H. W. Shaw .. i 2 11500 Mrs. Cosgrove X 9 41 TRO Mrs. P. Levy a 2 A i A 0 Dr. A. Jacobs i, K 54 gt Mr. Bernard Morris 5 £t %ISRO Mrs. D. Cohen .. 1l & TSRO Mrs. M. Bernstein 4 L 4 et () Mrs. F. M. Landau, London .. () Dr. Sidney S. Naftalin .. o 15219 08 ! Mrs. I. Sclar, Dunfermline .. e A, Mr. W. Golombok 2 A Esate ) Dr. Noah Morris 5 % bk Mrs, Telfer el 5 it JEEIE ) Mr. Lee 45 i X i () Messrs. Smith & Rodger Ltd. 1710 Prefessor C. Mullo Weir i 00 Mr. J. Harris £ 3t b 1S ORO Messrs. Pearson’s Stores A 100 Mrs.: D. Lewis .. o e 012 6 Aspro Ltd., Slough o 20 010 6 Mr. M. H. Stone 49 L 3 0510856/ Mrs, I. Carnofsky Aly s 010 6 Mr. A. C. Conelly ol s 010 6 Mrs. Louis Hymans 4ilk B 0 010 ‘6 Mrs. B. Goldman 47 o 010 6 Mrs. D. Sclar £ <) L 010 6 Messrs. H. 1. & S. Bernstein, Dunfermline A G 010 6 Mr. N. London .. i 2 010 6 Mrs. Louis Penn .. A s 010 6 Mrs. Sidney Wolfson .. ) 010 6 Anonymous, per Mrs S. Abram- son o o o i 010 6 Mrs. S. Abramson o 3 010 6 Messrs. Campbell & Innes Ltd. 010 6 Messrs. Kerr Leishman & Co. 010 6 Mrs. Aitken {0 57 514 010 6 Miss Gray 4 i 2 010 0 Mrs. Jack Levine 23 o 010 0 Mrs. M. Dover .. s o 010 0 Mrs. Goldberg ¥ b i 010 0 Dr. G. M. Osborne, Merthyr (VA o (o AP Y S (TN L o A o e e A T W e o s Tydfil i 1 i 010 0 Mr. Eagles 27, 4 il DD 0 Mrs. J. Green, Dunfermline .. 056 Mrs. Collins i il ot 055110 Mrs. Kaminsky, Greenock iy Qb () Mrs. A. Matthews, Greenock .. 05400 Mrs. M. Levitus .. % g 0 50 Mrs. M. H. Stone hs s 0 5 0 Mrs, Bach .. A 2 i 045510 Mrs. Levinson (A gt o 7 0 5 0 Mrs. Hirshow e 25 2 OSSO Mr. W. A. A, Goldie .. 7% OFEH ISO Anonymous, per Mrs Mann .. 00 Mrs. Cowan A Ak e 0. 5 0 Miss A. N. Lang o 503 0151 10 Anonymous, per Mrs. Hymans () sy () Mrs. C. Samuels o S 0 5 0 Mrs. S. Davidson e i 0 5 0 Mrs. H. Price i Ay 2 0 5 0 Anonymous, per Mrs. A, Wober @)

• 1938 - NEW SCOTTISH COMPANIES The following new joint stock companies were registered in Scotland this week:
  • Dunmure, to carry on the business of wholesale and retail dealers in house furnishings, fabrics of all kinds, garments and jewellery. Capital, £l5OO in 11,000 shares, of which 1000 are Preference shares of £1 each and 10,000 are Ordinary shares of 1s each. Subscribers: Sidney Wolfson, 24 St Enoch Square. Glasgow, warehouseman, and Jack Wolfson, 164 Nithsdale Road, Glasgow, salesman.
• 1935 - Valuation records record him living as a tenant in 3 Langside Place, Cathcart in 1935 and in 1940 at 10 Cheviot Road, with Mrs Eva Wolfson.
• 1934 - JEWISH NATIONAL FUND BAZAAR Donations - Furniture Stall, Queen’s Park Synagogue
  • Mrs Wendorf £10 0 0
  • Mrs Sidney Wolfson, 3 Langside PL £0 10 0
  • Mrs. W. Simons, 32 Annette Street 5 0
  • Donations in Goods received from following: (Through Mrs. Gordon) from McDonald Bros., 75 Nr. Hanover St..r Lamp Mrs. E. Hurwitch, 169 Queen’s Dr...r Chair Miller Bz, NIAILOT sot.fiyeciedisiesesssssanss susn TINGHALD Miss Wiseberg, Gorbals Street, 1 Chanucah Lamp Mr. H. Cohen, 7 St. Andrew’s Dr....... 1 Table Mr. Shapiro, Cartvale R0ad......1 Dessert Set Mri/Charles Gillis' 2.0 aoilid (T Chest VT AT ORepRICLL AV 5. 35 Rate sl fal (St SRR e
• 1921 - Sidney was registered as a 13 year old in the 1921 Census in Cathcart. 1921

See also

• Wolfson family