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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIII, Issue 16234, 7 January 1927, Page 11

Tho capture of the elusive bookmaker when pursuing his illegal occupation is an achievement occasionally attended by some diverting episode. A recent Dunedin occurrence was a case in point. On receipt of certain information, the police proceeded to the alleged Vbookie's" residence to get theif man. Friends, however, had advised him by 'phone of the intended visit and, having no time to escape he, like "Brer Rabbit," lay low inside the house. The arrival of the police almost coiiicid('(t : wrfh the : visit' of a client of the ''bookie," who was refused, through the keyhole, the chance !of putting "ten l-01-" on his fancy for tho Cup, mid warned «. "got out of it." As tho cheat hurriedly sought to obey the ndmon It Km, he spied the 'f'lifiruif'Bs of the lnvr ,]i• xi entering the gate and, With 'that "presence of mind which is superior to "1-m nee o;: body, ' ho seized a garden hoe thai happened to bo handy and began an energetic onslaught 011 the garden, la reply to police inquiries, he stated that the 'garden was his job. Hud that the whore.itbouts of the owner woro immaterial to him as ho had boe.ll hired for the day.' The bookie tells the sequel with great glee. "The blooming Johns sat flown to wait for mo and stayed three liours, and poor 0111 had to hoe the garden for dear life nil (hat time, lie _ liiade a ('lf<»hod good ,]ul> of it, too, and didii 't even get a chance to get a run for (us money. He reckons, however, he's due for a 'rake-off' samo time."