COUNTERFEIT COINS.
Criminal’s Secret Revealed by Death. MAY SOLVE RIDDLE. United Press Assn.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. SYDNEY, August 16. The sudden, death of Edgar Roland Stokes, alias Ritchie, in a Darlinghurst lodging has resulted in the discovery of portions of a coining plant and a number of spurious florins and smaller silver pieces. The police believe that they will now be able to suppress a widely spread system of distribution of counterfeit coins. Stokes's death was due to corrosive poison, apparently the result of carelessness in handling cyanide, which is used in the coining process. Investigation revealed that the man was born in New Zealand in 1904. He had served several terms of imprisonment in Australia since 1924.
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Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 1
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117COUNTERFEIT COINS. Star (Christchurch), Volume XLIV, Issue 194, 17 August 1931, Page 1
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