GOLD-COATED MEDALS.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIII, Issue 225, 22 September 1932, Page 11

GOLD-COATED MEDALS.

FALSE PRETENCE ALLEGED.

SALES TO JEWELLERS. WELLINGTON MAN REMANDED. (By Telegraph.—Own Correspondent.) CHKISTCHURCH, this day. The sale of medals' with an imitation 18-carat stamp on them was alleged against Norris Blaxall, aged 3D, a jeweller, of Wellington, when he appeared before Mr. E. S. Mosley, S.M. to-day. He was charged with obtaining a cheque for £4 7/6 from G. H. Madden, by a false pretence, and he was remanded until Tuesday, on bail of £200 and two sureties of £100. Suppression of liis name was refused. The chief detective said that accused was a working jeweller in Wellington, and had got the idea of making easy money. He had gone round the Christchurch jewellers and gold buyers selling alleged gold medals, which really only had a thin coating of gold. The estimated value of gold was 25/ in each medal, but accused had sold five oV six of them for prices up to £6. The medals were made and engraved by accused, and had an imitation 18-carat stamp on them. There was some cheap metal inside. There was reason to believe that Christchurch was not the only place where the medals had been disposed of, and a remand would be necessary to make inquiries. Counsel said that accused had told him he had a complete defence.