TRACKING THE BOOKMAKER.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1059, 23 February 1911, Page 2

TRACKING THE BOOKMAKER.

•: > Sir,—Being a subscriber of your valuable paper, I wish to beg a little space in your correspondence.column to know, why, the police, morti especially the'detectives, are so ~busy > on lade days now. wntchiusr ,the haunts of thi silver-betters, when six or sevtfn of the big bookmakers have their., partners 'mid representatives attending at a so-called club, where two Ministers of the Crown made themselves very prominent some time back. It seems strange when hundreds of .'pounds are changing hands every race day, and dozens,of. well-known people are going in and out all the time/ and the detectives are' passing the place as often as thirty times a day, that they should not look up that way. I suppose it Ms another case:ohtlio old saying.. "One law for the rich, and one law for tho poor."Everyone walking, the streets knows this place well, rind If our stall of Sherlock Holmes's would only pay a little attention to. it, instead df trying to catch the half-crown better (who, I-might say, is defunct now, and hot to be seen), they would be dfting the community a good turn. '"On the face of it, it looks a good paying propositionfor the force to be ignorant of this place. If so, :then, it is time their superior officer; - or chief, should take a hand- in iti rind show them where to start , from—not from-the bottom of the .tree, but. the top. Thanking you in anticipation,-x am, etc., ■■ - < - : - THE MAN ON THE STREET.