FRAUDS ON BOOKMAKERS.
The Hamburg police have discovered an ingenious swindle for defrauding bookmakers by means of wireless. Three men have been arrested, and the bund to which "they belonged is declared to have adherents in Britain and in six or eight other large German cities. In Hamburg the band had a threevalve receiving set with which they intercepted and deciphered morse messages giving the results of raee,s principally from French racecourses. From the window of their room they transferred this information to accomplices in the streets by hand signs or calls. The accomplices, having thus become aware of the result ten minutes before the bookmakers, were able to hasten to the latter and lay their bets with absolute certainty of 'winning. ,
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Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3233, 3 July 1928, Page 8
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122FRAUDS ON BOOKMAKERS. Ellesmere Guardian, Volume XLVI, Issue 3233, 3 July 1928, Page 8
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