DEFECTIVE MEMORY COSTS MAN THOUSANDS.
Press Association—Copyright. (Received 9.35 a.m.) LONDON, August 1. The Daily Mail’s Nice correspondent says Major Coates, a member of the cotton thread firm playing baccarat against the open bank with stakes of £4OOO left tlie table to get refreshments. He instructed the croupier to continue his fonr thousand bets til! h 0 returned. He fell Into conversation with a friend forgetting the time, and when he returned he fouud he owed £60,000. ,
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Stratford Evening Post, Issue 9, 2 August 1930, Page 5
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