ALLEGED TURF FRAUD
ACCUSED COMMITTED FOR TRIAL.
(Rec. March 30, 5.5 p.m.) London,. March 29.
George Hunt, Frederick Hunt, and George Walter Walters have been committed for trial on the charge of fraud.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
[The accused were charged with.conspiring te defraud a professional punter of £5OO. At the hearing of the charges the' prosecutor said he had a tale to tell more like the “Arabian Nights” than everyday life. When George Hunt, in Juno, 1919, issued a circular asking for money to work a racing system, an a.valanche of remittances poured in frorii all parts of the country at the rate of two thousand daily. People sold their estates and mortgaged their properties in order to participate. Some ceased work on the strength of their investments. Hunt was offering £l7 weekly for £lOO invested. Interest payments were made for two or three months, and then stopped. All classes of society were included among the victims.]
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Dominion, Volume 15, Issue 159, 31 March 1922, Page 5
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