LEVINE RELEASED
COUNTERFEITING CHARGE
HOW IT AROSE
VIENNA,'7th December. The Public Prosecutor has suspended the proceedings against Charles Lovine, the millionaire American aviator, who was arrested on a charge of being concerned in a coinage conspiracy, owing to absence of proof. He is leaving immediately by air. Levine for the first time told a "Daily Telegraph" correspondent the full story of the counterfeiting affair. He explained that he had been planning a solo round-the-world flight from New York which he hoped to <lo in fifteen days. He ordered the machine's equipment in Britain and elsewhere in Europe, and conceived the idea of striking medallions to distribute in celebration of the flight. Ho went to Vienna and saw a sculptor named Mazura, explaining in bad German that he wanted his own bust on one side and an aeroplane encircling the globe on the other. He showed him some Preneh half, one, and two franc pieces as samples of the size. The sculptor on the following day informed the police. "I was ai-rested, but treated the affair for three days as a mere jest," said Levine, "but the police declined to see the absurdity of anyone' wanting to counterfeit twopenny pieces." Levine's lawyers arc now proposing to suo for compensation.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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208LEVINE RELEASED Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 138, 9 December 1930, Page 9
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