SWINDLING SWEEPS.

Manawatu Standard, Volume 4, Issue 272, 20 October 1883, Page 3

SWINDLING SWEEPS.

The Melbourne H -raid's detective is still on the sweep swindlers' track He has j'now dispos d of" Orient," " Au<tralisiV "Bonanza," and/the "Mcl booine Turf Club." Speaking of the promoter of the the detective says :•£-" He did hot look much like the Secretary of a • Melbourne,* :TurfV Club when (, Ii saw him -first • It-was on; the fiat: at Fleroington on: Zplu'sCup dty, and he i 'wore a coat of many cobrs .and a smile, for bpsiness had beerfsgood, and he hadihrboght off many sweeps on th »t memorable spring afternoon., 'Pop it down,- gents.; a shilling a-^iece: and :; ten bob .thCiWinner ; the game's fair, and the monkey don't care/ .was bis \ dart m these days, and bj-the-bye, I had forgotten this7act, which* "of "course gives, him a<stronger , : claim than ever to a«Bhare'>o^thVpublioWnfidehce and the public coin as the Secretary of *The Melbourne ' Turf Club? a . . . It j isi difficult ta avoid: whfrt 'Falst aft /wbhldfoall • damnable.iteration ' in stig r matisißg; -the tgentlemsn whom itiis my dujy ftp introduce to "the public as swindlers,' but *> thereo are dbgrees m knavery! 'even^-and /for i un* ; blushing effrontery^ the' pair:; of arogae ? who Icomp©sP1 comp©sP the Melbourne' Turf Club stand Unrivalled." 'o The Herald states.; that -after <T the sweep swindle has been' exhaustively handled, the detective will lay! bare another of *he- turfy exereseenwi Jes, which, though of late growth; is daily becoming more deeply rooted*"