RACECOURSE INCIDENT
AUSTRIAN AND HIS MONEY. CONFIDENCE TRICK ALLEGED. POLICE MAKE AN ARREST. " Yott have got away with my £25 ! I'm going to fetch the police!" This remark, made in broken English by an excited Austrian named John Pibricevich, caused no little excitement on the racecourse at Ellerslie yesterday. Pibricevich came from Dargaville to town a few days ago. He came with the savings of some months in the country to spend a holiday in Auckland, bub jhe said yesterday that he was sorry he jnad not stayed at home. A day or so | ago, he told the police, he met a man j with whom he became friendly, and the friend in turn became confidential. The friend knew of many of the " good things" at Ellerslie. In fact, so Pibricevich eays, his acquaintance and a mate were supposed to be right in the thick of the money-making part of the business. Yes, and if Pibricevich liked, they would help to make heaps of money for him. ! That, at any rate, is the story of the. Austrian. '. -■ According to-Pibricevich, they went out to the course yesterday.' The Austrian •took £25 in five-pound notes with him, and ho confessed that he really believed that his friend of only a few days' acquaintance "knew things." He went on to say that the "friend" took the £25 ostensibly to put on Bon Revo in the third race, and left him standing on a corner of the lawn. The friend come back, j " Sorry, but it wasn't Bon Reve, but another horeo I mean!" But the friend did not have a totalisator ticket representing an investment of £25, and Pibricevich says that he grew suspicious. It was then that he made the remark which showed that something interesting had happened. Constable Neil, whom the Austrian consulted, found the friend, and after an examination of the case in a room in the members' i stand, he was sent to the police station, charged -with having tried a confidence trick, or in legal terms, with alleged theft from the person. The third man has not, so far, been found by the police. ■
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New Zealand Herald, Volume L, Issue 15190, 2 January 1913, Page 6
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