"AN INGENIOUS FRAUD"
\V ( lmt was described by the prosecution as an ingenious fraud" on a local bookmaker earned for a fishmonger of Brighton, England, a term of four months'imprisonment at Quarter Sessions last month. A son of : the fishmonger and another accomplice were placed on probation. J.ne charge was conspiring to detrauil and with' obtaining £24 by false pretences. • . .
Prosecuting- counsel stated that the son obtained nets on commission for the bookmaker, and he arrived at the bookmaker's place of business just before the first race, where he wrote out the bets he had taken in a front room. -While he was doing this his father obtained the name of tlie winning horse by telephone, and the other defendant then went outside the bookmaker's office arid twice shouted ■■•"Charlie," which was ,a code word giving the winning horse. The son placed bets on it, winning £24. The accused afterwards visited Lowestoft, Brandon, and Claeton, -where a police officer said, there 'was reason- to believe that • similar attempts were made.
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Evening Post, Volume CXVII, Issue 47, 24 February 1934, Page 21
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