ALLEGED TURF SWINDLE
(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION. —COPTEIGHT.)
(AI'ITRALIAN ■ NIW WALAMB CAILJ ASSOCIATION.) LONDON, 29th March.
George Hunt, Frederick Hunt, and George Walter Walters have been committed for trial on charges of fraud,
[The accused werp charged with conspiring to defraud a professional punter of £500. At the hearing of the charges the prosecutor said ho had a tale to tell more like, the "Arabian Nights" than everyday life. When George Hunt, in June, 1919, issued a circular asking for money to work a racing system, an avalanche of remittances poured in from all parts of the country at the rate of two thousand daily. People sold ttheir estates and mortgaged their properties in order to participate. ' Some ceased work on the strength of their investments. Hunt was offering £17 a week for £100 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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Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 7
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155ALLEGED TURF SWINDLE Evening Post, Volume CIII, Issue 76, 31 March 1922, Page 7
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