Attempt To Cash False Tote Tickets
/MELLINGTON, July 18. An uusuecessfu] attempt was made to rash spurio'us totalisator tickets at the races at 'trentham on tSaturday. A middle-aged woman presented tielcets purportiug co l>e on the ivinnei of oue of the e'arlier races. The payout clerk suspevted, thul flve tieket,were not gxTiuiiie and, oji the pretenec that' he was going to (■oHeet'"more 'eash. liancled tliem to the totalisator su])er eisor. Whe'n this oftieial Tetui'ned :[uickly to the wiiulow wliere the tickeJs liad been presented, the person atteihpting to cash theni had departed. . The in'ethod was a elusniy oue 'and ' was' nJ ikcly to have escaped dotection by at) ?xperieuced payout clerk. Tickets on the race bearing the eor- ' reef date code and otlier synibols, Were ourchased tuni wero oy.prlaid . witli the winuing horse numlter removed f.ront inothgr ticket, , ,
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Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1948, Page 7
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138Attempt To Cash False Tote Tickets Chronicle (Levin), 19 July 1948, Page 7
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