Totalizator Tricks at Mapier

Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 57, 23 October 1886, Page 4

Totalizator Tricks at Mapier

Some amusing stories are told in commotion with the big totalisutor divideuds at Napier. One of the tickpts on Liberty was taken by a man who was more than half drunk, and whq got tao ticket iv mistake for another. Those who had laughed at bis fully iv backing a duffer were quick to congratulate him on his sueruss. and. when he went to get his money he was surrounded by a crowd of hungry-looking loafers, all of whom were loud in their offers to take cave '* mt him. The quick eye of Detective Urace. who was on tiAe fi6ld> B P otted numerous "friends" two & 'three of the Sydney gang of sharpers'arid he heard two of them concocting a scheme for diverting the cash trunr tlie pockets of the winner to ' tfieir own. Much to the disgust of these gentry, the detective made his way tiptd the machine, and as soen as the man had received the £153 arrested , -him on a charge of drunkenness, and atjon<:etoqk him to the lockup. In the morning he thanked the police Very sincerely for their timely interference. Two other tickets were -taken by the "hoots" of the Masonic :■ HOtel, 1 who was not present, but who •igaVe the money to a friend to put on for bioi. Wnen the "haul" he made was-brought to him, he generously :- -i gave his Mend £30 of the money. The • purchase-money of one of the tickets < oil* Forester, which realised £70, was subscribed by four men, one of whom was commissioned to get the money. ! He carried, out this part of the business fciithf ullyi but instead of rejoining his friends and dividing, took the . first frain up country. It was another case of misplaced confidence.