BOGUS £2O NOTES

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 7 October 1924, Page 5

BOGUS £2O NOTES

EXCITEMENT AT RANDWIOK. DETECTIVES’ SMART CAPTURE. BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received Oct. 7, 8.45 a.m . SYDNEY, Oct. 7. Besides the legitimate track thrills, detectives provided an extra one at Randwick yesterday. For some weeks they have been on the lookout for negotiators of bogus £2O notes. Just after the first race two men at the main stand bar were raising to their lips glasses of liquor for which they had paid, when a posse of detectives rushed on them. In the rough and tumble amid the excited crowd one dropped a loose bundle of notes. The detectives secured most of them of a face value of £3OOO, hut the crowd got away with a few. Subsequently the police visited a number of homes and made five other arrests, including women. In' one house they found a complete printing and engraving plant and a large quantity of chemicals. The notes were good imitations of the real thing. Another incident was when Blue, one of the favourites in the Steeples.' lost his rider, A youthful bystander mounted him, but the horse took charge and did a round at the tail of the field, the youth hanging on like grim death. At the finish the spectators roared and - cheered and scattered a. shower of silver over the hero of the Dick Turpin ride. The impromptu jockey, with bulging pockets, led in the horse.