FALSE COINS PLOT.
KARACHI. April 20. Edmund Clarence Duke Wheeler, described ns of Liverpool mid Birmingham, and George Edward Dickenson, lately of London, were found guilty, by the Judicial Commissioner in Sind, of participating in the conspiracy to distribute counterfeit coins. They were sentenced to 4] and 2 years’ rigorous imprisonment respectively. Wheeler had been extradited from London after trial at Bow street last July, and brought to Karachi. Three Indians found guilty of complicity were sentenced to from two to five years’ imprisonment. The Judge said that the scheme', if successful, “would have flooded India and the surrounding countries with base currency.”
It was frustrated by the discovery at the Karachi Customs house of dies for counterfeiting rupees, and during the trial evidence showed that arrangements Had been made on a vast scale and plant installed at Duzdap, on the Persian-Baluchistan frontier. The dies were manufactured or purchased in England,by Wheeler. Oiie of the principals in the conspiracy, Captain R. P. Farrell, on arrest turned approver and irifide a confession which led to the arrest of the other men.
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Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1928, Page 4
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180FALSE COINS PLOT. Hokitika Guardian, 11 June 1928, Page 4
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