WOMEN MAKE CHARGE OF VICTIMISATION

Stratford Evening Post, Issue 100, 6 September 1929, Page 5

WOMEN MAKE CHARGE OF VICTIMISATION

CONSPIRACY TO , . DEFRAUD ALLEGED

REPORTED LARGE WINNINGS NOT FOHTHCOMINB.

TWO MEN IN THE DOCK.

(Received 8./50 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day

A, ease before the Paddington Police Court is creating interest in racing circles. Three women, Margaret Summerhell., Marion .Moody and Elvina Petarson ( are jeomplatnaints ajgiu'sn'sti Frank Bennett, 46, Len Houston 24, both of whom are charegd with conspiracy to defraud the women named of large sums of money.

The women’s story is they entrusted sums totalling £SOO for investment to Bennett and Houston, who, from time to time declared that they had “sure .things” at the races—in fact had fields 1 tied up”.

The women were informed on a. number of occasions that. they had won and were persuaded to leave their winnings with defendants, who eventually told the women that their total winnings amounted to about £22,000. Defendants were finally pressed to hand over the i supvosed winnings, but they disappeared. The case was adjourued.—Australian P.A.