INVITATION TO A BET
LETTER SENT BY SHOWMAN
(P.A.) WELLINGTON, Sept. 20 Thomas Nicholls (44), a showman and salesman, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate’s Court to-day to a charge of causing a letter to be sent to O. Chapman of Wairoa, inviting him to make a bet at Martin to-morrow.
Senior-Detective Compton said the accused caused a number of letters to be sent to the Hawke’s Bay district to names taken out of the telephone directory. The letter, after saying Chapman’s name had been given as a man who would have a bet if he knew something, said: “There is a horse going off at Marton on September 21. All I ask is that you send me £2. If this horse should get beaten 1 will refund your money, but I know now that I won't have to do that. If you are interested, get in touch with hie before the seventeenth.—Yours faithfully. J. J. Saul, Newtown Post Office.” "But he has not given us the name of the horse," commented Detective-Ser-geant Compton. For accused Mr w. J. Stacey said it was an idea worked out in a hotel bar. Accused had been quite frank. He had received no money. J. L Stout. S.M., imposed a fine of
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Press, Volume LXXXII, Issue 24986, 21 September 1946, Page 2
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