SETTING BY TELEPHONE.

Marlborough Express, Volume XLII, Issue 90, 15 April 1908, Page 5

SETTING BY TELEPHONE.

VJENNA BOOKMAKERS

"ROOKED."

[press association.] {Received 15, 9.3, a.m.) \ JLONDON, April 14. On account of the absence of direct telephones and the slowness of transit of telegrams, bets were accepted at Vienna two and a-half hours after English races <\ rere run* A of sharpers, utilising telephones between London, Paris and Berlin and thence to -'Vienna, swindled leading bookmakers" of mauy thousand pounds.