TOTALISATOR DUPED.
TICKET OPERATED ON,
A faked totalisator ticket was acoeptod by one of the officials at the totalisator house on Wednesday, and the result was a loss of wE6 10s, on'the transaction. It appears that the ticket (a ten-shilling one) was issued on No. 18 in a oertnin race, and the horse failed to gain a place, but No. IS won. TJio; holdef of the ticket: with more ingenuity than honesty, transformed the ■ figures : . eight in ' two places into threes, and the ticket was passed, although the word "eighteen" appeared in another place. The transfcrmation was apparently offeoted With a sharp penknife or suoh-likc instrument. Yesterday morning the; "fake" was discovered.' ■ '■.•■•
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1656, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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112TOTALISATOR DUPED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1656, 24 January 1913, Page 4
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