COUNTERFEIT COIN.
I SEVERAL ARRESTS MADE AT INVERCAKGILL. (PRESS ASSOCIATION , TELBOBAIC.) INVERCARGILL, July 8. | For some weeks counterfeit silver coins have been in circulation. Last'week the police got information that young men were congregating in a tout in the suburbs, and! ; on «search being made rud« appliances were ] found. Coins made in Babbitt's metal had j been oast in moulders of sand. Four young fellows were and charged with coining, two with passing a base half-orown, and one with having counterfeit coin in his \ possession. All the silver coins, except a threepenny bit, bad been crudely imitated, and had it not been that the people here»,ara not suspicious of that sort of it would have been detected weeks ago. That the industry has bi>en .worked to same purpose is evident from the fact that one house detected three in on© day. ; 'rhe accused will be taken before the Court to-moerow. All of the accused were resi- j dent in the vicinity of the but. One had baen employed in a foundry, and therefore something of the modus operandi.
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Press, Volume LVIII, Issue 11012, 9 July 1901, Page 6
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