TWO MEN CHARGED
Making and Uttering Coin
OFFENCES ADMITTED
Arrested on Saturday evening after the receipt of complaints that counterfeit coins were being uttered, two men appeared in court yesterday charged with uttering and making counterfeit silver coin and three coining moulds. Ute men, Milliain George Hart, aged 43, and nilliam Babbage, aged 47, both of whom are relief workers, pleaded guilty and were committed to the Supreme .Court for sentence. „ A schoolboy, Leslie Charles Hallam, said that a man gave him 2/- in payment for a paper on Saturday evening, and that he later handed it to a detective. Acting-Detective Smith said that when the men were accosted in Brandon Street they denied all knowledge of the affair. Both were quite willing to be searched. Three copies of a snorting paper were found in Hart’s possession as well as a small piece of white metal.
In a subsequent statement the men admitted the offences and took tho detectives to their house in Newtown, where the moulding articles were found. In Hart’s statement it. was claimed that be could not support his family on relief wages. Bail was refused..
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 9, 5 October 1933, Page 2
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