THE BETTING MANIA.
ALLEGED FRAUD BY A TELEGRAPH OFFIOIAL. | PER PII"S9 ASSOCIATION. Chmstchobch, May 7. During the past week or two it hat I been freely rumoured that dvelopments of a sensational character might bo expected in connection with the locil telegraph offige, and further colour was given to thrss statement* when it became known that an official, who hrd for many years Leld a responsible prsition in <he department, had been suspended. It is now under* stood that he, with another peraon, will be changed at the Magistrate's Court on Tuesday with having manipulated telegrams with the oljujt of defrauding a well-known bookmaking firm near Wellington. The offence is said to have been committed on the Riocarton racecourse at the last meeting of the Canterbury Jockey Olub, and consisted of sending a telegram to the bookmakers asking for a crttin sum to be put on a hone which had just snoreeded in winning a race, end antedating the telegram by half an hour.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue XXIII, 8 May 1901, Page 2
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164THE BETTING MANIA. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XXIII, Issue XXIII, 8 May 1901, Page 2
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