Horse “Owner” Tips “Sure Thing” at Races
GAOL FOR FRAUD A SWINDLE AT TE RAPA From Our Oicx Correspondent HAMILTON’, Today. A middle-aged man, Vincent Pobar, pleaded guilty in the Police Court today to falsely representing that he was the owner of the racehorse Mithra, and obtaining two totalisator tickets from an elderly man named James Shirley at the recent Te Rapa races. Detective-Sergeant Thompson said he kept Pobar under observation and saw' him speak to a number of people. His movements were generally suspicious. He finally approached Shirley and advised him to put a “tenner” on Mithra, as he, Pobar, was the owner, and the horse was a “sure thing.” Shirley bought five tickets, and accused induced him to part with two of them for the jockey. Accused was sentenced to three months’ imprisonment and fined £5 for unlawfully trespassing on the course. James Patrick Heath, described as an accomplice of Pobar s, was sentenced to two months’ imprisonment for vagrancy, fined £5 for trespassing on a racecourse, and fined £1 for being unlawfully on licensed premises.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 1
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178Horse “Owner” Tips “Sure Thing” at Races Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 954, 23 April 1930, Page 1
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