AN AUSTRIAN’S £25.
SAYS HE WAS “WELSHED.”
A STORY FROM ELLERSLIE
[PRESS ASSOCIATION TELEGRAM]
AUCKLAND, Jan. 1
“You have got away with my £25. I’m going to fetch the police!” This remark, made In broken English by an excited Austrian named John Pibvicevicli, caused no little excitement on the racecourse at Ellerslie today. Pibvicevicli came from Dargaville to town a few days ago. , He came with the savings of some months In the country to spend a holiday in Auckland, but he said lie was sorry he bad not stayed at home. A day or so ago, lie told the poiice, lie met a man with whom lie became friendly and the friend in turn became a confidential friend who- knew of many “good things” at Ellerslie. In fact, Pibricevich says ho and bis acquaintance were supposed to be right in the thick of the money-making part of the business. Yes, and if Pebricevich liked they would help to make heaps of money for him. That, at, any rate, is the story of the Austrian. According to Pibricevich they went out to the course today. Tlie Austrian took £25 in fivepound notes with him and he confessed he really believed his friend of only a few days’ acquaintance “knew things.”' He went on to say that his friend took tlie £25 ostensibly to put on Bon Reve in the third race and left him standing on the corner of the lawn. The frienu came back, saying, “Sorry, but it wasn’t Bon Reve, but another horse I meant.” but the friend did not have a totalisator ticket representing an investment of £25, and Pebricevioh says that he grew suspicious. It was - then he made the remark which showed something interesting had happened. Constable Neil, whom the Austrian consulted, found tlie friend and after an examination of the case in a room in.the members’ stand, lie was sent to tlie police station charged with having tried the .confidence trick oi\ in legal terms, with alleged theft from tlie person. A third man, an accomplice of the friend,-has not so far been found by the police. . ‘
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3718, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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353AN AUSTRIAN’S £25. Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3718, 2 January 1913, Page 5
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