SPURIOUS COINS
PLUMBER’S OFFENCES. AIOLTEN SOLDER USED. HAMILTON, Feb. 8. Pleas of guilty to charges of. possessing and making counterfeit coins weie entered to-dav by Gotleib Grumwald, a plumber, aged 48 years. Two charges of uttering such coins were also aciIn a statement to the police accused j said he made 30 or 40 sixpenny and : threepenny pieces in a repair siiop at Hamilton East. His method was to prepa.re a plaster of paris mould from a genuine coin, and to pour molten solder into the mould. The reason lie had given for making the coins was . that he was living in poverty. Ail tiie | coins were used to buy food. . Detective-Sergeant Thompson said that on searching the accused s P re ‘ mises he found a tin halt dun or plaster of paris, and several sticks or solder. , , , . ~ To counsel for accused, the detective agreed that the accused, with his wire and six children, had been living in extreme poverty. His house was poorlv furnished, and he slept on sacks. Nothing was known against him previousJy. Th© accused impressed lum as an eccentric and certainly not as a shrewd or clever criminal. Grumwald was committed to the Supreme Court, at Hamilton, for sentence.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 10
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203SPURIOUS COINS Manawatu Standard, Volume LIII, Issue 63, 10 February 1933, Page 10
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