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Show 'MONEY PAID BACK TO WOMEN TOUTS AT RACE TRACK MADE TO . DISGORGE $200. How the Cltver Fellows Deceived the Ladies Police Interfere on . Wednesday. j'Xhe police are awakening to the fact that people are being systematically systemat-ically worked" Ht the race track by a gang: of touts who prey upon tho unsophisticated, un-sophisticated, particularly the Ladles who are inclined, to risk a few dollars on the outcome of the various races. , A number of these louts were rounded up Wednesday by the police end made to disgorge more than $200 which. they, had secured, largely from women,' for ihe purpose of betting in the ring below the grandstand. Soroc of the fellows bet the money and won. and then failed to return the winnings to their customer?. Others (lplherate.ly "appropriated the money aud did not bet at all. A favorite "stall" scorned to be the story that Ihe money had been bet on other than the horse which wm, through a misunderstanding mis-understanding of the Instructions. Thb touting game is so old that It would seem almost childish to warn the intellectual public against its dangers. dan-gers. In spite of the fact, however, there arc literally hundreds of Ogden citizens who have been mulcted of their hard-earned cash through the efforts ef-forts of this clever gentry known as "stirc-lhing touts." .vw It has been no unusual sight upon any afternoon during the meet to see men. women and girls, whose faces are familiar to all residents of the city, lending an attentive ear to some caglc-eyed caglc-eyed ''-stranger " who tells them that this horse or that horse la sure to win (he next race, upon the strength of which Information, the dupe readily read-ily puts up a sum. varying from a single dollar in several hundreds. The average "touted one" explains that often a winning has been made and the tout has modestly asked for a i-ha re of Ihe money which is gratefully grateful-ly given him In return for his 'information," 'infor-mation," the victim little dreaming that upon the same race, that particular partic-ular tout had probably a number of other horses wagered upon by other individuals, one of which was certain to win. |