COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1046, 8 February 1911, Page 5

COUNTERFEIT SOVEREIGNS.

- ''' ■» —— , FIVE YEARS' FENAIi SERVITUDE. 07 Tel«cr*ph— tress Assoclat!on~CoDjrisbt (llcc. February 7, 9.30 p.m.) Sydney, February 7. Tho Youells, father and son, havo been each sentenced to five years' penal servitude on charges of having made 32 counterfeit sovereigns found in their possession. ' Tho younger prisoner, who, prior to tho jury giving their verdict, declared ho was innocent, subsequently mndo a fctatement in the l>ox, confessing that ho gilded tho coins, declaring that his father know nothing about tho matlor. The police evidence showed that the younger Youell, associated with three men, who tvero arrested afterwards, and sentenced for passing counterfeit coin lit Flcmington last Derby day. A. house in Campbell Street, North Syd- | ney, was raided by the police at an early 1 hour on Saturday morning, Deconibcr 10, 1 and a coining plant aud accessories, as '. well as 32 boeUs soyerciens. wero seized. • At daybreak Detectives Fullcrton, Ward, > Leary, Surridgo, Vincent, and Darlington made tho trip across the harbour.'and ar- ' rested a man and his son. Tho plant c consisted of a largo ease of coining m;i- ---• terial. plaster of paris moulds, two elec- • trio batteries, two vessels of eyanidins 1 potassium, a quantity 6f antimony, lead, • sold rolled thin, and other accessories, - The men were'taken to North Sydney ' Police Courl. and charged with having in j their possession a coining plant.