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MAN SENT FOR TRIAL, SHOPKEEPER'S SUSPICION.A charge of uttering a couilteffeit coin, knowing it to be counterfeit, was preferred against James Antona Wallingford Fleming in the Police Court yesterday, before Mr. W. H.- Woodward,S.M. Evidence was given that ficcused tried to pay a doubtful half-crown for goods in a fruiterer's shop in Mount Eden Road. When he was subsequently searched by a constable a coin similar td the one he had displayed in the shop was found in his possession. A schoolboy,Lawrence John Burke, said that he had found 13 coins in the grass at the edg£ of Boston Road, along which two associates of accused were walking. They did not "ring" when dropped on the' pavement. The lad took them to th£ police station. Counsel for accused, Mr. Bainbridge,' contended the police had not made out a case, but the magistrate committed accused to the Supremo Court for trialBail was not allowed. i
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 37, 13 February 1931, Page 3
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