ILLEGAL BETTING
EVIDENCE AT N.S.W. INQUIRY
SYDNEY, May 6.
Giving evidence before the Royal Commission on betting raids and police methods, a former Police Commissioner, Mr. W. H. Childs, declared that the ramifications of starting-price betting in New South Wales were appalling. There was a bookmaker's agent in every big building. Even the butcher and the baker were in it, and so long as the Postal Department continued to supply telephones to illegal operators, so long would the police be hamstrung in their efforts to suppress the evil.
George Parker gave evidence that he had pleaded guilty to betting offences when innocent because he was urged to do so by police agents who had hitherto caught him. He had lost £1400 in starting-price-betting. Parker added that in 1934 he suggested to Constable Mooney that he would give him the price of a suit of clothes if he would shut his eyes to illegal betting. Mooney agreed and later received five notes.
The hearing was adjourned.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 9
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165ILLEGAL BETTING Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 107, 7 May 1936, Page 9
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