“JOHN BULL” SWEEPS.
A CHARGE OF CONSPIRACY. (By Electric Telegraph—Copyright] [United Press Association.] (Received 8.0 a.m.) London, May 14. Houston, Dixon, and Dowler, have been committed for trial. Houston stated that he was the solo agent for a Geneva firm who was promoting the sweeps. A cablegram on the 9tb inst. stated: Henry James Houston, of Burnley, William Dixon, and Charles Dowler, of Birmingham, were charged at Plymouth with a widespread conspiracy in the provinces for the sale of tickets in the “John Bull” Derby Sweep. There was evidence that Houston had ordered eleven million tickets, totalling, with circulars, eight tons of printed matter.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 20, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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104“JOHN BULL” SWEEPS. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIX, Issue 20, 15 May 1914, Page 5
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