AUSTRALIAN COUNTERFEITORS.

Colonist, Volume LIII, Issue 13020, 8 February 1911, Page 3

AUSTRALIAN COUNTERFEITORS.

Till-: YOUILLS SENTENCED.

Association —Copyright.]

(Received Feb. 7, 9.30 p.m.)

Sydney, Feb. 7

The Youills f-.itliL i- and son, who wore a 1 rested in December, were each si>iite:io.'.-d to live years' i>r.nal sorvitrak' on (iliar^o.!; of having made thirty-tw:) counterfeit sovereigns whieii werj foun<l in their possossion. The younger ])riso;ier, who, prior to ihc jin-y t;ivius their verdict, declared that ho was innocent, subsequently mado a statenuMit in tlie box confessin .H having yiklod tho coins, and declaiinjj: that" liis father know nothing about the matter.

Tlio police (ividence showed that the younger Vouill wr.s associated with three men who were arrested afterwards and f.oiitenced for passing counteil'eit rom at Flemington last Derby day.