BETTING RAIDS ENQUIRY
Operators' Methods POLICE EVIDENCE AT SYDNEY TUJCITBD MBSS ABSOCUTIOK—COPYSMHT.J (Received April 15, 8.50 p.m.) SYDNEY, April 15. In giving evidence at the resumed enquiry into police methods in betting raids Sergeant William Keefe, who with others conducted a •number of such raids, • said that hundreds of subterfuges were employed by illegal betting operators. Some used self-erasing pads, others used secret drawers, bottles, and sliding panels in which betting slips were hidden. It was quite comlmon for women to secrete betting {slips on their persons, and the police were unable to conduct .an immediate seajch of their clothes. The police took the view that they would catch the offender later on. Scouts and "cockatoos" were usually posted outside hotels to give warnings about police approaching, so that it was most difficult to make arrests. The police also had evidence that youths under age were conducting street betting in sixpences. Sergeant Keefe added that starting price betting was a real menace, especially in the poorer suburbs. Anonymous letters about the police to the Police Department were often written by persons in sympathy with illegal betting operations.
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Press, Volume LXXII, Issue 21759, 16 April 1936, Page 11
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