LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1186, 22 July 1911, Page 3

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR.

4 "IS THE GAME UP?" THE BOOKMAKER. Sir,—From the long and laboured diatribe of your correspondent "Ne l-'ronti Credo" against the police and bookmaker, it is evident that ho is satiated with egotism. Doubtless he wishes the public to appreciate tho following points:—l. That lie is a classical scholar. 1!. That he is a miirli-lravelled num. 11. That he has very active abilities of (he Sherlock Holmes type. 1. That lie is an aenro diagnostician of any pathological symptoms appKivini; in members of the police force. Jf "Xc Froiiti Oedi:" had carried his pathological investigations further, and applied them to himself, he mu'.st surely Ihavo observed symptoms indicating that he 11115 suffering from that troublesome malady known as jaundice. In any ca« tho warper! view he fakes of the actions of the police seems to indicate that he is looking at things with jaundiced eyes. Now. sir, your correspondent, like Uriah Heap, is altogether ton humble. If ho has suc.'i startling information to impart concerning the doings of the police and bookmakers, why does he not take it to tho proper persons, the inspector or the Commissioner of Police; or, if ho wants the public to judge, at ( least sign his own name, in order to givn tho latter iin opportunity of testing liis credibility. Instead he prefers tho sheet-anchor of the shuffler—the nom do plume. Your correspondent guarantees to get as much money as he wants placed at tote odds in Wellington. Now, sir, it seems to mo that, if the bookmaker? possess that great acumen ascribed to them by your correspondent, they would not fake money from anyone they did not know, so thai, on his own showing, if "Xe I'ronti Credo" or any of his friends can fulfil his boast, they must be well known lo tho bookmakers. It might not be out of place here, to point out ir> your correspondent that by himself betting he also becomes a party to' the offence against the law. Possibly, "Xe I'ronti Credo" belongs to that category of well-known citizens, whom he wishes to sec summoned to give- evidence, or else he may bo one of those' reformed bookmakers that have been present on several racecourses lately. .

Now, sir, I have been present at most of tho meetings held in or near Wellington for some time past, and I have utterly failed to notice any of tho tactics ascribed to the police by your correspondent, and I certainly think I should have observed them if they had Iveen as open as your correspondent would have tho public believe.—l am, etc., 11. C. HEWSON. July 21, 1911.