SYDNEY FORGERS

Grey River Argus, 29 April 1932, Page 5

SYDNEY FORGERS

Stamps and Sweep Tickets POLICE ARREST THREE MEN. (Aus. & N.Z. Cable Assn.) SYDNEY, April 28. Detectives to-day arrested three men who are allegedly concerned in the production of sixty thousand counterfeit two-penny postage stamps. A large quantity of the stamps in sheetform was discovered in a suburban house, ami also a copper plate, from which, it is believed, they were printed. Inquiries have elicited that the trio were associated in an agency for the ■lrish State Hospitals Lottery, the stamps being mainly used in connection with tkeir business, regarding this sweep which extended to all States and New Zealand. Following the arrests Charles Jackson, aged thirty-five, and William Helmsley, aged thirty six: were charged with unlawfully acting as agents for a foreign lottery; and Harry Elderfield, aged forty-two, an engraver, was charged with having counterfeited a stamp-making plate. All were remanded LATER. In addition to the counterfeit stamps the police also seized in* other raid® two hundred pounds worth of alleged forged Free State lottery tickets