SPURIOUS COINS
SYSTEMATIC WORK BY GANG
COUNTERFEIT PLANT SEIZED
SYDNEY, May 11
Schematically ‘working’ B-ue Mountain towns of New .South Wales, a gang comprising two men and two women are alleged to have passed hundreds of counterfeit coins during the past few weeks. So .far police accounted for 20-odd dozen and they say they believe there are many more stiff in circulation.
• A shopkeeper at Wentworth Falls wrs the first to realise that he had been duped. He got in touch with the Katoomba police and two constable* detained-two men and two women. It was allcgeTl that th. 3. su c pects had '230 spurious flo-ri's in their possession. The aid of Sydney police was sought and five detectives went to a house in North finin'ey and seized a complete counterfeiter’? plant. It was discovered that practically every shopkeeper between Penrith and Katoomba stffl had a number of the coins in his till, •some of them hi-vfec. been passed a month previously. The police estimated that at feast 50 shopkeepers had been defrauded. r.
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Hokitika Guardian, 13 May 1933, Page 3
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