ALLEGED CONSPIRACY.
WOMEN CLAIM THEY WERE DEFRAUDED.
LARGE WINNINGS AT RACES,
United Pruso -.n40.-uti.iua —By Ekn-m. iei-.|»j Copy rig tit.) ;Australian Press .tnsoouituin , Received 10.15 a.m. to-day.
SYDNEY, Sent. 0, A ease before the Paddington Police Court is creating interest in racing circles. Three women named Margaret Summerbell, Marion Moody and Elvira Petersen are complainants against Frank Bennett ~a,ged 46, and Len Houston, aged 24, both of whom are charged with conspiring to defraud the women named of large sums of money. The women’s story is that they entrusted sums totalling £SOO for investment to Bennett and Houston, who, from time to time, declared! that they had sure things at the races, in fact had the field “tied up.” The women were informed on a number of occasions that they had won. ard were persuaded to leave their winnings with defendants, who eventually told the women that their total winnings amounted! to about £22,000. Defendants were finally pressed to hand over the supposed winnings, hut they disappeared. The oa.se was adjourned.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLIX, 6 September 1929, Page 5
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