BETTING TRANSACTIONS

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLI, Issue XLI, 14 February 1921, Page 5

BETTING TRANSACTIONS

CLAIM AGAINST BOOKMAKER

8Y CABI/B—PBES3 ASSOCIATION—COPYEIGHT

;(Aus. T N.Z. Cable Assn.)

LONDON, Feb. 11

In the King's Bench Division of the High Court, Archibald Wall, a wealthy merchant, sued William Charles Warren, a bookmaker, for £15,000.

Wall gave evidence that !he met Warren in the Berkley Hotel,- and 'Warren let Wall into the secret cf a horsei aping scheme which wa<s to "bring in money foeyo&d the dreams of avarice. The system -was $o choose a horse at iong odds, and, then Warren and his wealthy partners woul^ combine to shorten the odds, and finally lay against odds. Thus they could hot lost and might win. Wall, who had "never gambled "before, gave cheques for £5000 to back Bruce Lodge in the Derby, and £10,*000 to back Happy Man in the Newbury Cup. Both horses .were scratched.

The jury found for plaintiff damages for £15,000.

Warren said he 'had been born an New Zealand and lived in Australia for many years. "He denied that be ■was convicted in Australia in 1910 under the name of William Warren.