REFUNDS TO “BOOKIES.”
SEQUEL TO BETTING INVESTIGATIONS.
(Received Dee. 29, -5.5 p.m.) LONDON, Dec. 28.
A sensation was caused ‘ in racing circles by the refund to forty bookmakers, "of bets totalling £3500 paid out to an Army officer, whose father was _ the successful owner of racehorses. ' The officer backed the winner of the chief race at Kemp ton Park, on October 8, by means of telegrams lodged at a village post office in the Midlands, apparently a few minutes before the race started, to forty bookmakers in various towns. The Intelligence Department of the Phst Office investigated the despatch of these telegrams, and the bookmakers have since received a refund of bets from a relative of the winner.—A. and N.Z.C.A.
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Gisborne Times, Volume LV, Issue 6274, 30 December 1921, Page 5
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