COUNTERFEIT COINS.

Greymouth Evening Star, Volume XXXI, 11 July 1901, Page 4

COUNTERFEIT COINS.

Accuseds' Committed for Trial.

(per peess association.)

iNVEUCARJILt, July 9

From what transpired at the Police Court tc-clay, it is evident that the real distributors uf counterfeit c )in here have not been caught. The four young men before the Court to day had taken possession of an old hut and fixed it up for a rendezvous. Here they played cards read and" amused themselves. Ono was an apprentice moulder, and they tried their hands at moulding small articles in soft metal—horses, medals, etc. Then they tried coins of the realm, and one of these (one of the accused) said he passed one by mistake to a fruiterer and was afraid to say anything about it. One or two of the coins wero produced in Court, but had not been passed. The inventory of the contents of the hut did not show any skilled attempt at fraud, and detective Mcllveney admitted that but for the youth's own statement no charge could have been laid against them. Experts deposed that the counterfeit was very poor and a foreman moulder s>id that thi articles made wero a common pastime of apprentices. Three of the lads said that the fourth bad nothing to do with tho matter. All were committed for trial on the charge in which a 1 aiv involved, bail being allowed. The ct'ier ch irges will bo heard on Thursday.