DEFRAUDING BOOKMAKERS.
BOGUS MESSENGER SCHEME. By Telegraph.—Press Assn —Copyright. London, October 15. The latest scheme for defrauding bookmakers is to employ a bogus messenger, according to a case in which two men were charged in a London court. The solicitor alleged that accused sent themselves telegrams on the morning of certain races, erased the pencilled writing thereon and substituted bets on winning horses after the results were known. They employed a baker's boy to deliver the telegrams in the official uniform. The boy gave evidence that his practice was to meet the accused at a certain spot wearing a mackintosh over the uniform. He then put on a messenger’s cap, removed the mackintosh and delivered the bogus telegrams. The uniform was subsequently burnt in a copper fire, 'but the police raked the ashes and found the buttons and other marks of identification.
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Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1922, Page 5
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142DEFRAUDING BOOKMAKERS. Taranaki Daily News, 19 October 1922, Page 5
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