GAOL FOR FORGERS.
BOGUS NOTES CIRCULATED. SENSATION AT RANDWICK. LONG TERMS IMPOSED: By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright, Received Dec. 20, 1.30 p.m. Sydney Dec. 19. As a sequel to . the issue of bogus £2O- notes at the Randwick races on October 27, various terms of imprisonment were to-day imposed on the perpetrators.
James Tonkins, a printer, was sentenced to seven years’ imprisonment, and William Jacobsen, a photographer, to four years’ imprisonment for forgery, while Joseph an engineer, was sentenced to eighteen months’ imprisonment for uttering the notes, of which £3OOO worth were found in the men’s possession.
The notes were dropped in a loose bundle at Randwick when detectives rushed the men in the bar after the first race. . The police subsequently visited a number of houses and found a complete note-printing plant, besides a large quantity of chemicals and paper. The notes were a good, imitation of the real thing.
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Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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149GAOL FOR FORGERS. Taranaki Daily News, 20 December 1924, Page 9
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