NEW WAY IN OLD SWINDLE.
BOOKMAKERS DEFRAUDED. The Hamburg police have just discovered an ingenious swindle for defrauding bookmakers by means of wireless (says the Berlin correspondent of the London Morning Post). Three men have been arrested, and the band to which they belonged is declared to have had adherents in Berlin and six or eight other large German cities. In Hamburg they had a three-valve receiving set with which they intercepted and deciphered Morse messages giving the results of races, principally from French racecourses. From the window of their room they transferred this information to accomplices in the streets by hand signs or calls. The accomplices, having thus become aware of the result ten minutes before the bookmakers, were able to hasten to the bookmakers and lay their bets with absolute certainty of winning.
Thirty Hamburg bookmakers have lost considerable sums of money for some time past in this way. Several of them, it appears, have only themselves to blame for their losses, as they frequently a-oepted bets after the betting should have been declared closed.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 234, 26 April 1928, Page 4
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