CARD-SHARPERS MISS
£12,000 THEY DID NOT GET
SOUTHAMPTON, July 2. Mr. Wilfred Hill, an English business man, lost £12,000 to card-sharpers in the Canadian Pacific liner Empress of Britain, which reached Southampton to-night from Quebec. The sharpers, however, did not get their winnings. “We played about three games,” said Mr. Hill, “and after I had been allowed to win £4O the stakes were incrcased’on the last night at sea.» ‘ l l was warned about tne men, and, as I anticipated, I then lost heavily. I declined to settle and merely repaid what I had taken from them earlier. They left the ship at Cherbourg.”
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIII, Issue 19099, 21 August 1936, Page 14
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