INVALID “TOTE” TICKETS
MAN’S ATTEMPT TO COLLECT SUM. CHARGE OF FORGERY WITHDRAWN By Telegraph.—Press Association. Auckland, Nov. 8. Michael Cuthbert Lynch, aged 47, bricklayer, pleaded guilty to-day, to a charge of attempting to obtain £7 18s by falsely representing that a totalisator ticket was valid. A charge of forging the ticket was withdrawn. The police said that three forged tickets were passed in at the Epsom trots on August 27 and at the Avondale races in October. A special watch was kept, with the result that Lynch was found attempting to collect £7 18s with a forged ticket. Detectives found printing material and iijks. Counsel for Lynch said he was a man of unblemished character and had been asked by another man to collect the dividends. The magistrate declined to believe this and remanded. Lynch.
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Taranaki Daily News, 9 November 1932, Page 6
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