LEVINE’S ARREST
COMPENSATION SOUGHT. United Press Association.— By Electrir Telegraph.—Copyright.] VIENNA, December 7. Harry Levine, the millionaire TJ.S.A. airman, who has been arrested in Austria on a counterfeiting charge, told the “Daily Telegraph” for the first time the true story of the counterfeiting affair. He explained that he was planning a solo round-the-world flight from New York, hoping to do it in fifteen days. He ordered machine equipment in Britain and elsewhere in Europe. He said he conceived the idea of striking medallions to distribute so as to celebrate his flight. He went to Vienna and saw the sculptor Mazura, explaining in had German, that he wanted his own bust on one side and an aeroplane encircling the globe on the other side. He showed him some French half francs, and one or two franc pieces as samples of tile size. The sculptor on the following day informed the police. “I was arrested,” said Levine. “1 treated the affair for three days as a mere jest, lint the police declined to see the absurdity of anyone wanting counterfeit two-penny
pieces. Levine’s lawyers are now proposing to sue for compensation.
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Hokitika Guardian, 9 December 1930, Page 1
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