LOTTERY STIR
TAMPERING WITH THE MARBLES. TWO MEN CHARGED WITH FRAUD. (Australian Press Association.) (Received this day at 8 a.m.) BRISBANE, October 20. A Stir was caused by the alleged attempt to tamper with the marbles at this. = week’s drawing of the “Golden Casket” art union, the first prize of which is £6OOO. Two arrests were made. Donald. Mnckay, aged 45, acting as ■accountant t-o the Golden Casket, and William Evans, a traveller, were charged with conspiracy to defraud tike State lottery and were remanded. Tho police informed the 'Court that •Evans’ son w.a« employed by th e arfc junior drawing, and had a marble can,.eider in his, hand the numbers whereon iorrosponded with the ticket Pl,relnred by E -fins at Ipswich. The hoy was just* about to plunge his hand into r|ho barrel for the. drawing, i The Queensland Government *inI aioiinres that future drawing wiU be S carried out with a mechanical gripping 1 device, similar to that u?td in the 1 'New South Wales lottery.
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Hokitika Guardian, 20 October 1932, Page 5
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