COUNTERFEIT COINS
MAN BEFORE COUNT (Per Press Association.) WELLINGTON, this day. The criminal sessions of the Supreme Court opened to-day. Albert Henry O’Malley, 39, an unemployed barman, was the first on the list with four charges of uttering counterfeit coins. j Detective Ritchie gave evidence Unit J when be interviewed O’Malley at O'.MalI ley’s room, saying lie had reason to bej lieve be had counterfeit hallcrowiis in bis possession, O’Malley replied that he had hud two which lie had passed at a couple of shops. The witness produced and read a statement made later and signed by O’Malley at the detective office, in which lie said he paysed the first halfcrown innocently, hut when be passed tho second ’ lie knew it was a “dud.” The halfcrowns, lie said, were given to him by a man who shouted him a drink in the Imperial Hotel bar. No evidence was given for tho accused. His Honor, Air. Justice AlacGrgoor, said the question came down to consideration of whether O’Alally knew when be passed the coins that they were ’ act genuine. The jury returned a verdict, of not .guilty on the first, count, and of guilty on three others, and O’Malloy was remanded for sentence.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17919, 25 October 1932, Page 11
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202COUNTERFEIT COINS Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 17919, 25 October 1932, Page 11
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