Sensational New Zealand Cash Bettor Arrested On Maintenance Charge
From Melbourne comes a story that the sensational cash bettor, known to bookmakers as “New Zealand,” Leonard Wanliss, aged 38, was arrested at Flemington while waiting to back Columnist for thousands of pounds. He was taken, to the City watchhouse, but was released on bail in time to return to the course to see Columnist win the Williamstown Cup. Wanliss was charged with having left his wife without means of support since 1943. The police said his wife took out a warrant for his arrest in Sydney on Friday. Wanliss was detained in the grandstand enclosure shortly after the second race and was taken to the city by car. While at the. watchhouse he took several thousand pounds in bundles of five pound and ten pound notes from his pocket and said he was going to back Columnist with it, and that he had already invested £4OOO on the horse. He was granted bail in £200,, and rushed back to the course, but the police estimate he would not have time to place all his bets before the race started.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 11, Issue 100, 21 November 1947, Page 2
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