RACECOURSE FRAUDS
THE LATEST SCHEME. BOGUS TELEGRAPH MESSENGER EMPLOYED. Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright LONDON, October 15. According to a case in which two men were charged in a London court, the latest scheme for defrauding bookmakers is to employ a bogus post office messenger. The solicitor for the prosecution alleeed that the accused sent themselves telegrams on the morning when certain races were to bo run. They erased the pencilled writing, and substituted bets on the winning horses after the results were known. They employed a baker boy dressed in an official uniform to doliver the telegrams. The boy gave evidence that his practice was to meet the accused at a certain spot wearing a mackintosh over lus uniform. He then put on a messenger’* cap, removed the mackintosh, and delivered the bogus telegrams. The uniform was burnt in a fire in a copper, but the police raked out the ashes and found buttons and other marks of identification.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 18687, 17 October 1922, Page 5
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