BANK CLERK'S BETS.
LOST £4517 IN A WEEK. LONDON, Jan. 20. How Walter Schwendelkr, aged 26, a bank clerk on a salary of £350 a 'year, sometimes put £250 on a horse, roads bets totalling £IOOO in a single day and lost £4517 m a week, after winning £4398 during the previous week was unfolded at the Guildhall to-day by Harry Levene, a bookmaker, who said he understood that Schwendeller' was an agent for trainers and owners. Schwendeller, who wa» committed for trial, was charged with conspiring with Bachofen, a clerk in another bank, fraudulently to obtain £5949. Bachofen, who died in November, had tho utmost of his employers' confidence, until hiß desk was opened after his funeral. The mouer/ers included Levene,. who wished to meet Bechofen's wealthy client*,
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLV, Issue 57, 6 February 1925, Page 10
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