PAPERSPAST

TIMAEU.

December 11. j At the Supreme Court to»day F. C, and G. W. Bedman, father and J son, of Waimate, were charged (1) with making three false coins ; (2) with coloring two sixpences to res semble half sovereigns, and (8) and with uttering false and counterfeit coins. The judge -forbade the prisoners being tried on the first indictment, holding that it comprehended three felonies. The trial proceeded on the others. It appears that the younger prisoner had passed to three Waimate tradesmen counterfeit half sovereigns, and subßequenty, on the police search* ing the house of the prisoners, they found pieces of lead stamped to re° semble shillings, lead ladles, ammonia, gold leaf, plaster of par is. coaguliue, Judson's gold paint, and a cup and brush used for paint.- The two Bedman's were found not guilty for utter counterfeit coinage at Waimate, owing to the evideuce of the witnesses »s to the particular coins being directly opposite,

Click here to view this newspaper article

This text was automatically generated by a computer. It has not been manually reviewed or corrected and may include errors. You can view the article in its original format or read the entire page.

About the computer-generated text

Optical Character Recognition (OCR) is a process for automatically extracting text from scanned pages. OCR enables searching of large quantities of full-text data, but it is not 100% accurate. The level of accuracy depends on the print quality of the original newspaper and its condition at the time of microfilming. Newspapers with poor quality paper, small print, mixed fonts, multiple column layouts or damaged pages may have poor OCR accuracy.

The page where this item appears has an estimated OCR accuracy of 88.83%.