NINE CHABACTEES
AND SEVEN DAYS
(By Telegraph—Press Association.) AUCKLAND, This Day. Pleading guilty to charges of obtaining £8 from Wong Lock and £1 from Wong Young by falsely representing that a pakapoo ticket bearing nine marks was the winning ticket in a lottery, John Francis Bruce, aged 39, a motor-driver, and Clement Matthew Alic'k, aged 24, a labourer, were sentenced by Mr. Wyvern Wilson, S.M., to seven days' imprisonment. The police said that the accused cut out Chinese characters and pasted them over the centre of other tickets, the Chinese bankers paying out portions of the sums allegedly won and promising more later.
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Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 116, 12 November 1935, Page 12
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103NINE CHABACTEES Evening Post, Volume CXX, Issue 116, 12 November 1935, Page 12
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