SWINDLE ADMITTED
A LETTER WITH BETS
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(By Telegraph.—Press Association.)1' AUCKLAND, This Day! An admission that he was guilty of a swindle was made by John. Henry; Mahoud, charged with fraudulently obtaining £49 from Harry Clifton Sal- ] lerj' and attempting to obtain £184 from Sallevy. The police said that Mahood lived at Cambridge. On the day of tho Takapuna spring races he posted a letter addressed to himself at Cpmbridge. Tha address was written on a slip of paper lightly gummed on an envelope. On. receiving the letter he immediately went to Auckland by service car, removed the slip of paper, and wrote on tho same ' envelope Sallcry's address. Tho letter contained bets. Having addressed the letter to a bookmaker, ho purposely dropped it in the Auckland Post Office, where an official discovered' it and placed it in Sallcry's box. The letter thus bore a Cambridge Post Offico dr.'j stamp of the morning of the ra'cea and Sallery paid out £49. The accused attempted to obtain the largo? sum of £184 at the time of the Auckland races, this time dropping a letter under tho Post Office door. An official who found it endorsed on the back that it had been found. Sallery became suspicious and Mahood was caught. Sentence was deferred.
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Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11
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214SWINDLE ADMITTED Evening Post, Volume CXI, Issue 69, 23 March 1931, Page 11
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