"IT'S NEVER TOO LATE."
COINER OF THE CENTURY.
Times-Sydney Sun Special Cable.
London, January 19. A grim romance ended yesterday in Highgate Cemetery in the burial of a man named George Cook with full Salvation Army honours.
Thirteen years ago at the Old Bailey a Judge, in sentencing him to 12 years' imprisonment, pronounced Cook the most expert coiner of the century.
Commencing with a sentence of nine months for passing base coin, Cook spent over 30 years in prison, his sentences aggregating 45 years. Whilst serving his last sentence Cook came under the Army influence, and procured a ticket-of-leave in 1910. Cook then publicly confessed on the penitents' form, and has since been a loyal and steadfast "soldier," living a blameless life.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LI, Issue 15513, 21 January 1914, Page 9
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