TURF SENSATION.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 16669, 27 February 1922, Page 5

TURF SENSATION.

GAMBLING SCHEME REVEALED. By Telegraph —Press Association—Copyright. • Aaaur.lian v • ! ’ • • • •• LON DON . February 25. George Hunt. Frederick Hunt . (brother) and George Walter Wallets, ■ an ex-engineer, were charged at the | Barry Police Court with conspiring to i defraud, a professional punter of £SOO. j The prosecutor counsel said he had .» i tale to tell more like one in Arabian Nights than in everyday life. When ! George Hunt, in June. 1919. issued | his circular asking for money to work ! a racing system an avalanche of le- • mittances poured in from all parts of the country at the rate of *2OOO daH\ r . : People sold their estates and mortgag- » ed their properties in order to p.ir- . ticipate. Some ceased work on the strength of the investments, Hunt offering LIT weekly for “very Cloo invested. Interest payments wore made for two or three months and then stopped. All classes of society were included in the victims. (George Hunt was charged with obi taming £SOO by false pretences from I a professonal backer, the warrant be- ! ing issued on the application of Har | old Lloyd, a Cardiff solicitor. Mr ! Lloyd stated, according to a previous I cable, that the matter was connected i with a bogus turf scheme by which it J was alleged £3.500.000 had been obtained from people in various parts of > the country. The money was obtain'ed as the result of advertisements guaranteeing a dividend or interest | varying from £*s to £lB a week).