A SHARPER AND HIS DUPE PUNISHED.

Evening Star, Issue 3423, 10 February 1874, Page 3

A SHARPER AND HIS DUPE PUNISHED.

culpability of issuing advertising bills resembling bank notes is shown in the following case, heard before the Bench at Young on Tuesday last, and reported in the ‘ Burrangong Argus’:—Mr James Jerard, of “under and over notoriety, commonly known as the Marquis of Waterford, has come to grief. He came into Young with a fist full of what might certainly, at a cursory glace, be taken as bank notes, bnt which in reality are promises to pay, issued by Mr Coates, of Grenfell, and which run as follows :—“ Bank of Emu Creek. Coates’s Varieties—No. xix. On demand, I promise to give to any sportsman or sportsman’s sons, one cooling beverage of the death extinguishing order. Incorporated by Bill Yards and Co.” The note has the figure 1 in a lozenge on each side near the top, and also has the word one in the bottom left-hand corner. Meeting an incautious old simpleton by the name of Kennelly, the “ Marquis” pulled out these notes, at the same time saying that he did not wish to get on the spree, and asked Kennelly to let him have a few shillings and take one of the notes as security. Kennelly, who at the time possessed circulating medium of the unimpeachable order, made the advance required, took the note as security, and, in an attempt to pass it, in company with his friend at Minter’s, found out his mistake, and they were both given into custody. The magistrates gave Kennelly seven days’ imprisonment, and discharged the Marquis, but ordered him into custody for obtaining money under false pretences, upon which charge he was convicted, and relegated to the local custodia fora period of six months.