“HEADS WE WIN”
“TAILS THE TOTE lOSE.”
EASY BETTING
WITH FORGED NOTES. P.Y CABLE--PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. SYDNEY, Dec. 19 As a sequel to the issue of bogus £2O notes at the Randwick races on October 27, various terms of imprisonment were to-day imposed on the perpetrators.
James Tonkins!, a printer, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, and William Jacobsen, a photographer, to four years’ imprisonment for forgery, while Joseph Wright, an engineer, was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for uttering the notes, of which £3OOO worth were found in the men’s possession.
Tlie notes were dropped in a loose bundle at Randwick when detectives rushed the men in the bar after the first race. The police subsequently visited a number of houses and found a complete note-printing plant, besides a large quantity of chemicals and paper. notes were a good imitation of the real thing.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 20 December 1924, Page 5
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