FIVE YEARS' GAOL FOR THEFT
BRISBANE BANK CLERK'S
TURF LOSSES
BRISBANE, August 26.
Pleading guilty to the theft of £69,105, belonging to the National Bank of Australasia, Cecil Roberts Trotman Foote, a bank clerk, aged 37, was sentenced to five years' Imprisonment. The Crown Prosecutor told the Court that Foote once had wagered £9BOO in one day on 51 horses all over Australia. His biggest betting loss in one day was £5700. At the original hearing in the Police Court on June 28 the police said Foote admitted that he had paid about £50,000 to one bookmaker and between £15,000 and £25,000 to another.
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Press, Volume LXXIV, Issue 22491, 27 August 1938, Page 17
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