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COUNTERFEIT PAHIMUTUEL TICKETS Totalizator ticket fakers had n profitable time at the recent Wanjranui anil Woodville meeting in New Zealand When Master Lupin won the Wanganni Cup twenty extra tickets were pre seiited nnd paid the club losing about 1000 thereby At Woodville the totnlisator proprietors Messrs Marett and Fox paid out something like 1000 on bogus tickets and this put the linn named on the alert at Dannevlrke a few days Jater They Instructed their clerks to look for a certain distinguishing mark on all tickets and gener ¬ ally keep a careful watch Nothing happened ou the first day of the meeting but after the second race on the second day a person appeared at the payout window and presented two tickets ou a horse which paid over 25 The clerk who re ¬ ceived them Ikjcame suspicious and called one of the proprietors The man glaclng through the window saw the game was up and bolted ac ¬ companied by a confederate who was carrying a handbag presumably with their printing phara pliernalla They got into a taxicab drove rapidly in the direction of Dannevlrke got out before reaching the town1 made tracks for the liacl country and were not after seen At Kandwlck a few years ago several bookmakers were victim ¬ ized through alterations made to the number of tickets issued ou the course Sydney Referee
