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Show LONDON GRAFTER IS CONVICTED OF FRAUD Tribuno Special Sporting Service. LONDON, March 20. Joseph Stod-dart Stod-dart who found guilty at thc Old Bailoy the other day of dctrauding tho public by means of. football and racing coupon cou-pon competitions, and was sentenced to eighteen months' hard labor aud to pnv too coals of the prosecution, which will amount to several thousand dollars. dol-lars. His son-in-law, Frcderieli Catling, was found not guilty of false proteoses, but tho jury could not agroo as to tho charges of conspiracy. He was bound i ovor iu $1000 to appear at tho next I tessions, when ho may bo tried again on j thouo charges. I Tho frauds which Stoddart commit-I commit-I ted wero in connection with tho "Rac-I "Rac-I ing Record" and "Football Sports." I The public were induced to send in entry j foes and forecast results of races and i football matches. Names and addresses 1 of winners of large Muni6 of money were aftorwards published,. but in a number i of cases these were found Io be fic-titous. fic-titous. . I Iu summing up, I ho recorder referred i to Stodilart as a man "rich beyond the dreams of avarice. " "It is quite easy to see how a man could become rich beyond the dreams of avarice ;f no ' winner' was paid, and lie thu3 placed some thousands of dollars dol-lars in his pocket in ono week," ho con-linuod. con-linuod. "It would appear from tho evi-deueo evi-deueo that theie was a conspiracy within with-in a conspiracy, njid that while Stod-dart Stod-dart was tho lion, others did a little on thoir own account when they could." Mr. Abiiigcr, who defended Stoddart, raised tho question of tbc jurisdiction of tho court, as the money was received i in-Holland, and intimated Ht there. I would be an appeal. |