COUNTERFEIT NOTES
THE AUCKLAND ARRESTS SUSPECTS BEFORE TH’ COURT [ Per Press Association. ) AUCKLAND May 12. Four of the suspects arrested in Auckland jn connection with the uttering of the forged pound notes of the Bank of New South Wales again appeared on remand at the Police Court. Each was admitted to bail in a surity of £5OO. Tho four were Percy Short aged 51, an Australian showman; his son. Percy John AlcKcnzio Shore, aged 20; also Alaurice Goodman, aged 33, an English vommercial traveller, and Harry Torpy, aged 40, a showman. Detective-Sergeant Kelly (producing a bundle of spurious notes): A number of those notes have been identified. At least a thousand of these counterfeit notes have been circulated and it is worth noting that, the circulation has stopped since these men have been in custody.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 111, 13 May 1931, Page 7
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135COUNTERFEIT NOTES Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 111, 13 May 1931, Page 7
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