COINER GETS A SHOCK
Sudden alarm on the part of a twbt> carrying counterfeit coin is believed »*o account for two packages of bad 'halfcrowns and florins being found in an j ante-room at a West End Ixwidom hotel. No attempt had been made to hide them, and it is thought that the coins had been brought to the hotel by a man to be distributed to others adept at passing counterfeit money, and that on entering the hotel he was surprised to find a number of detectives, who were there for quite another purpose. Becoming alarmed* 'he apparently hastily cast aside the packages and decamped.
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New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 9
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106COINER GETS A SHOCK New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12354, 26 January 1926, Page 9
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