VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY.
Per Press Association. NAPIER, Nor. 5. Phillip Whelan Darragh was charged in the Supreme Court to-day with hiaving in Iris possession an instrument adapted for and intended for counterfeiting copper coins. A detective stated m evidence that he had occasion to interview accused in Hastings, in the course of which Darragh produced a set of soldering tools, stating they were for making double-headed pennies, which, he said, were worth 5s each, In summing up, His Honour 6aid that the case was a simple one. First of all, prisoner said he was intending to make double-headed pennies and then said that the tools that he had were not suitable. It looked to him as though accused was right, and the saw was merely a fret for cutting wood. The jury returned a verdict of not guilty and the prisoner was accordingly discharged.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 290, 6 November 1929, Page 8
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145VERDICT OF NOT GUILTY. Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIX, Issue 290, 6 November 1929, Page 8
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