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FORGING ADMISSION TICKETS Racketeers Making Bold Bid for Control of Tickets to All Tracks in New England. PAWTUCKET, R. I., May 9.— Racketeers are making an audacious bid for control of the admission ticket boxes at all New England race courses. For days past Rhode Island and Massachusetts have been flooded with forged tickets of admission to Narragansett Park, and police investigations have revealed that mobsters have established a printing plant in or near Boston which is turning out forged admission tickets in wholesale quantities. Their efforts at present are directed at Narragansett Park, which happens to be the track in operation, but forgeries on Rockingham Park and Suffolk Downs are to follow, and the dog tracks will not escape. So serious has become the situation that it has been necessary to enlist the aid of the police forces of both states, and it is expected that federal investigators will step in to take a hand unless the evil is stamped out immediately. The modus operandi is as follows: With a genuine ticket to copy from, the forgers turn out thousands of a fair imitation of the original. These are sold in large lots to the bigger operators. These operators, in turn, retail them in lots of fifty to the minor chisellers who infest all railroad stations connecting with the track and all highways to peddle the pasteboards. In a radius of ten miles from Narragansett Park the trouble has reached the stage where a red light halting traffic on the highway is the signal for scores of petty hustlers to spring out and thrust their forged pasteboards into automo-. biles. The forgeries are usually sold at half the price of the genuine tickets. Walter OHara, at Narragansett Park, ha3 tackled the matter in characteristic fashion. Squads of detectives are working, and ! while arrests have already been made, many more will follow. OHara warns the racing public not to pur- j chase tickets anywhere but at the park gates. All others arc forgeries, and those found in possession of them are liable to be I caused much embarrassment, whether they have knowledge of the forgery or not. The remedy is in the publics hands, and OHara asks the public to keep at his efforts to stamp out any racketeering in connection with any branch of racing by not purchasing these forged tickets. The only genuine tickets of admission to Narragansett are sold at the ticket booths in the park. All others are forged.
