WOMEN SWINDLED
IN BETTING TRANSACTIONS. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8.30. a.m.) SYDNEY,j- Sept. 6. A case before Paddington Police Court is creating interest in racing circles. Three women, Margaret Summerbell, Marion Moody and E-vira Peterson are complainants l , against Frank Bennett, aged 40; and Len Houston, aged 24, both, of whom are charged with conspiring to defraud the women named, of large sums of money. The women’s story is that they entrusted sums totalling £SOO sterling for investment to Bennet and Houston, who from time to 'time decla'red they had sure things at the races,' in fact they had the fields “tied up.” The women were informed on a number of occasions that they had won, and were persuaded: to leave their winnings with the defendants, who eventually told the women that their winnings amounted to about £22,000. Tim defendants: were finally pressed to hand' o a r the supposed winnings but they disappeared. The case was adjourned-.
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Hokitika Guardian, 6 September 1929, Page 6
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