ALLEGED FRAUP.
PALMERSTON N., April 3. Two employees in a country pti-: oflico near Palmereton North, who are alleged to have been endeavouring to find a vV>rt road to wealth per medium of the bcakinaker. are to be charged in the Magistrate's Court shortly will) conspiring to obtain money by fraud. The offence is said to have taken placein connection with the Wanganui race*. It is alleged that the employees (ok» is 21 and the other 16) adopted a system of manipulating wires. As soon as the result of a race came through they would send a wire to a bookmaker instructing him to pat money on the winning horse, timing the wire an hour or so earlier. The scheme, however, did not work. The police were informed, and Detective Siddels pursued the matter, with the result, that informations have been laid.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 63
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142ALLEGED FRAUP. Otago Witness, Issue 3030, 10 April 1912, Page 63
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