SOLDIERS ROBBED
CROOKED TWO-UP SCHOOLS DOUBLE-HEADED PENNIES (0.C.) SYDNEY, May 13. The police say that many soldiers are being robbed collectively of hundreds of pounds by well-known criminals who run crooked two-up schools in the parks. These crooks are playing the old game of using double-headed pennies, and they always have two or three bruisers around, ready to deal with any soldier who should be so foolish as to demand the right to inspect the coins. The crooks use fraudulent kips, the flat pieces of wood from which the pennies are tossed. These kips have a slot cut in one side, into which a double-headed coin is put, and the flat surface of one end is treated with a sticky substance, 10 which one of two good pennies adhere. So when the kip is tossed, one good penny and the doubleheader from the slot fly into the air.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXXIII, Issue 114, 16 May 1942, Page 6
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