COINING CHARGE.

Star (Christchurch), Volume LXIV, Issue 884, 4 October 1933, Page 7

COINING CHARGE.

Two Men Caught by Police. COMPLAINT FROM NEWSBOY. Per Press Association. WELLINGTON, October 4. Charges of uttering a counterfeit coin, making counterfeit coins, and making three coining moulds were admitted in the Magistrate’s Court today by two relief workers, William George Hart, forty-three years of age, and William Babage, forty-seven. They were committed by Mr E. Page, S.M., to the Supreme Court for sentence. Evidence given was to the effect that on a complaint from a newsbQv detectives watched in Lambton Quay. They picked on and searched accused, and found coins. After, at the place where the men lived, the police found more coins and apparatus for making them. Russian Pleads Not Guilty. George Sargiff, a Russian, fortythree, pleaded not guilty to having in his possession three coining moulds, and was committed for trial. In this case, evidence was given by the manager of a city cafe where the accused was in the habit of having meals that the accused brought a tin with a request that it should be put in an oven and baked. He said that it contained moulds for little statue?. An assistant at the cafe said that when the accused brought the tin a second time he was suspicious that there might be something dangerous in it and so he opened it. He found three double moulds, and inside one which he opened he found a two-shilling piece. He reported the matter to the police. Detctiv Hayhurst said that that he found in.Sargiff’s room a blow lamp, plaster of paris, metals, copper wire, pliers and other tools. In opposing bail the olice mentioned that the accused was sentenced at Auckland last year to twelve months imprisonment for being in possession of a bomb. The police said that he was a foreigner with strong tendencies against the betterment of the community. Bail was refused both in this case and in the case of the other two.