BOOKMAKERS' DIFFICULTIES
AN ALLEGED CONSPIRACY. By Telegraph.—Press Association. ; _, Napier, Wednesday. A despatch clerk at the local telegraph office, named Arthur Hanlen, aged 19, was arrested last night on a charge of attempting to conspire with Hiram Ashcroft to defraud Edward Limbrick of £2O 9s and £5 by means of false pretences. It .alleged that Ashcroft arranged with Limbrick, a bookmaker, to accept wires on horse races. These wires bore the telegraph office stamp as having been banded in half an hour before the races were run, but enquiries showed that the wires never passed through the office. Prisoner has been remanded on hail. Ashcroft was arrested at Palmerston and remanded to Napier.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 202, 30 September 1909, Page 3
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112BOOKMAKERS' DIFFICULTIES Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 202, 30 September 1909, Page 3
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