CLERK’S THEFT
BETS £9BOO OF STOLEN MONEY. (Australian Press Association.) BRISBANE,.;August 25. V Pleading guilty to of the -theft, of £69,105 belonging to'the National Bank of> Australasia, Cecil Roberts Trotman Foote, vivj'bank clerk, aged thirty-seven years, was .sentenced to five years’ imprisonment. . , The Crown Prosecutor told the Court that Foote had once wagered £9BOO in one day on fiftyrbne horses, which were- running all ;over Australia. Foote’s biggest betting loss in one day was £5700. At the original hearing of the charge in the Police Court, on June 28, the police said that. Foote had admitted he had paid about fifty thousand pounds to one bookmaker, and had paid between fifteen thousand and twenty thousand pounds to another bookmaker.
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Hokitika Guardian, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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