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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18546, 21 August 1928, Page 15

How to dispose of “easy money” wad explained in Court at New York by William Lotigheed, a former employee of a New York street cleaning depart . ment. He, with other late employees, is charged w'ith wholesale graft which Lougheed admitted had been going on for thirty years. One district alone yielded £BO,OOO in three years. .Lougheed confessed that he made £16,000 by this means last year. He proceeded to tell how he got rid of his huge “earn ings." With other employees, he said, he tossed dice in office hours for £2OO a throw. Racing at Belmont Park one afternoon c-ost him £16,000, while for single bets £l6O was quite usual. Poker i nights would cost the losers anything I up to £I2OO per sitting. Not contentj with these methods of ridding himself < of bis accumulated funds, Lougheed said that just for fun he would toss up bundles of small notes in the street and permit boys to collect them. He would thus* dispose of £IOOO in one ; throw. “The bills came down like a i beautiful snowstorm,” said Lougheed. !