BETTING SWINDLE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 851, 26 August 1933, Page 27 (Supplement)

BETTING SWINDLE.

Sydney Bookmakers Are Victimised. (Special to the "Star.”) SYDNEY, August 10. The police have been informed of a cunningly’ conceived scheme under which starting price bookmakers in city' and suburbs have been robbed of thousands of pounds. The use of invisible ink, in which bogus and successful bets, are written, is the basis of the swindle’. A few of the bookmakers have even approached the police on the matter, but, as their business is in violation of the law, it is not likely that the authorities will interest themselves. They explained that bettors- have either personally’ or through a runner handed them slips, low down on which the name of a horse, with the amount invested, was written in blue-black ink. This horse would be an entrant in the third or fourth race on the programme. A bookmaker doing an extensive business sometimes does not even bother to look at the slips. He puts them in his pocket or ledger with other bets, and hours later, when he makes up his book, he finds numbers of big bets written about winners of early races. The invisible ink has by’ then revealed itself. The original bet on the slip, which was visile to the bookmaker when he accepted it, had been written hours before delivery.