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CATCH FIRST-PAST-POST SWINDLERS. Old Latonia Trick Is Duplicated at Los Anqe-les — Handbooks Were Beinq Mulcted. Los Angeles. Cal.. January :;. For the last week many of the handliooks down town have Imcii sys teniat ically beaten by a coterie that has been waking at the track through signals. Seymour Bcutlcr. the IMukerton man in charge of Ascot Park, dis covered the plotter today, arresting a man name,l L. J. Smith, local electrician, whom he caught in the act of Hashing a signal from the rear of the grandstand to :i cottage Beat by. Big numbers were printed U-lwecu the pafH of the program and then spread out like an acoordeen and Hashed through the window while the man was apparently writing something on the reverse side. The men in the collage were also arrested. They had been tele phoning results downtown to a certain office real which a quick rush was made around town to the various handbooks.
