THEFTS & GAMBLING
AUSTRALIAN BANK CLERK SENTENCED NEARLY £lO,OOO WAGERED IN ONE DAY BRISBANE, August 25. Pleading guilty to the theft of £69,105, belonging to the National Bank of Australasia, Cecil Roberts Trotman Foote, a bank clerk, aged 37, was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment today. The €rown Prosecutor told the court that Foote had once wagered £9BOO in one day on 51 horses all over Australia. His biggest betting loss in one day was £5700. At the original hearing in the police court on June 28 the police said that Foote admitted that he had paid about £50,000 to one bookmaker and between £15,000 and £20,000 to another.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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108THEFTS & GAMBLING Wairarapa Times-Age, 26 August 1938, Page 5
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