NOVEL BETTING FRAUD.
ALTERATION OF TELEGRAMS.
BOGUS MESSENGER EMPLOYED. United Service. LONDON, Oct. 15. The latest scheme for defrauding bookmakers was revealed in a case in .which two men were charged in a London Court. A solicitor alleged that accused, sent themselves' telegrams on the morning of certain races, erased the pencilled writing upon them, and substituted bets on winning horses. .After the results were known they employed a baker's boy in the uniform of a telegraph messenger to deliver to bookmakers the telegrams, which thus bore times hours in advance of the times for the running of the races, and were accepted as bona fide until suspicion was aroused and an investigation was made.
The boy gave eviidence that the practice was to meet accused in a certain spot wearing a mackintosh over his uniform. He> then put on a messenger's cap, removed the mackintosh, and delivered the bogus telegrams. The uniform was subsequently burnt in a copper fire, but the -police raked the ashes and found buttons and other marks of identification. •
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 7
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174NOVEL BETTING FRAUD. New Zealand Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 18223, 17 October 1922, Page 7
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