BETTING FRAUDS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue XLII, 16 October 1922, Page 8

BETTING FRAUDS.

-■ • i BEATING THE BOOKMAKERS d¥ C/vs!,?; PRHSs a»;-.v). ATifi'-• -r:orv'R."-'-ia Received Oct. 16, 9.30 a.m. LONDON, Oct. 15. The latest scheme for defrauding bookmakers is to employ a bogus post office messenger, according to a case in which two men were charged in the London Court. A solicitor alleged that the accused sent themselves telegrams on the morning of certain races, erased the pencilled writing thereon and substituted bets on the winning horses. After the results were known they employed a boy to deliver the telegrams in an official uniform. The boy gave evidence that the practice was to meet the accused at a certain spot wearing a mackintosh over his uniform. He then put on a messenger's cap, removed the mackintosh, _d delivered the bogiis telegrams. The uniform was subsequently burnt in the copper fire, but the police raked the ashes and found the buttons and other marks of identification. —United Service,