HORSES POISONED.
GAAIBLEIIS’ CONFESSION
CHICAGO, Alay 28. Three gamblers were so anxious to “make a killing” over the Illinois Handicap, tho principal race at tho Aurora (Illinois) meeting, that they poisoned four thoroughbreds. Ten minutes before the parade, nows reached the track that the horses were ill, and the evidence of tampering was so plain that tho race was cancelled. One inare died during the evening and the others are still sick. The police obtained confessions from the gamblers that they had given the horses strychnine in sugar. If the poison had not acted so quickly, the gapiblers expected to make a £50,000 coup.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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104HORSES POISONED. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLVI, Issue 163, 11 June 1926, Page 7
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