ALLEGED PRISON COINING.
(Special to Times.) WELLINGTON, Nov. 7. Apropos of the story told by a New Plymouth prisoner about counterfeit coining at the Mount Cook Barracks, Wellington, an officer who was one of the party digging trenches there recently under the school of instruction informs me that an officer in a trench next to him dug up a sovereign. The Post says the story is an old tale re-told a year ago; even then the incident was not fresh. A prisoner undertook to show a local journalist a plant of counterfeit coin. After making inquiries the journalist satisfied himself that bad money had been manufactured by prisoners, and that a warden had been removed. The removal of the warden was supposed to have closed the incident.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2232, 8 November 1907, Page 2
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127ALLEGED PRISON COINING. Gisborne Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2232, 8 November 1907, Page 2
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