£1850 AT STAKE.

Shannon News, 8 February 1924, Page 2

£IBSO AT STAKE.

THEFT ALLEGED

"What about a ride in that car?" "What do you mean?" "Don't you know that one of the tickets I sold you bore the winning number of the Katoomha Thousand?" This dialogue between a tobacconist and a man to whom he had sold five tickets for the Katoomha Thousand is alleged to haye led to the discovery that the winning ticket (112,735) has been stolen. It appears that the man bought five tickets from the tobacconist, and put them away in a drawer. It was not until the tobacconist told him thlat 'he was aware his tickets-bore the winning number. The man hurried home to his flat in Bondi, but, to his consternation, 1 there were four tickets only, the winnings number having vanished. Be immediately informed the police, and it was discovered that the winning ticket had just been forwarded from Brisbane. As the result of information the Sydney police passed on to Brisbane the police there arrested a man named Brodribb. It is alleged that a servant at the winning .ticket holder's house took the ticket when she learmed that it had won, and gave it to Brodribb, who rushed it away to Brisbane, and sent it back to claim the £IBSO poize. The woman, also, has been arrested.