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A BETTING SYSTEM.

Betting systems are . a stock subject or discussion and experiment among ;ome raping men, but, however, excellent he theory, few, of any, emerge well from • he. test of practice 'William Walter Miller, m England, hit on a system vhich caused him committal for trial at Richmond m December on a charge of having endeavored ' to obtain a sum of noney from a turf accountant by false -.retences. According to the case for the oolice Miller did not burn the midnight )il over volumes of form, and his system was more infallible than , all the rest Volled into one. His only stock-in-trade vas a couple of envelopes and one stamp, md this was his simple method of procedure: He placed one envelope inside 'he other, stamping the inside one, and leaning away .that part of the outer envelope above the stamp so that the inside envelope would receive the postnark. The outer envelope Miller adiressed to himself. When the letter re- : urned to him through the post he took • >ut "the inner envelope (now properly kited and post-marked), enclosed within t betting slips for horses which had won, addressed it, and personally delivered the letter at the bookmaker's house.

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NZ Truth, Issue 850, 4 March 1922, Page 7

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A BETTING SYSTEM. NZ Truth, Issue 850, 4 March 1922, Page 7

A BETTING SYSTEM. NZ Truth, Issue 850, 4 March 1922, Page 7