STOLE £69,000
BANK CLERK GAOLED
£9800 IN BETS IN ONE DAY
BRISBANE, August 25
Pleading guilty to the theft of £69,105 belonging to the • National Bank of Australasia, Cecil Eoberts Trotman Foote, a bank clerk aged 37, was sentenced to five years' imprisonment today. .
The Crown Prosecutor told the Court that Foote had once wagered £9800 in one day on 51 horses all over Australia. His biggest betting loss in one day was £5700.
At the original hekring in. the Police Court on June 28 the police said that Foote admitted that he had paid about £50,000 to one bookmaker and between £15,000 and £20,000 to another.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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107STOLE £69,000 Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 49, 26 August 1938, Page 9
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