COUNTERFEIT COIN.
By Telegraph.—Press Association.- Copyright Received February 7, 9.30 p.m. Sydney, Last Night. A father and son named Youell, have been sentenced to five years' penal servitude on charges of having made 32 counterfeit sovereigns found in their possession. The younger prisoner, who, prior to the jury giving their verdict, declared his innocence, subsequently made a statement in the box confessing he gilded the coins and declaring his father knew nothing of the matter. The police evidence showed thai the younger Youell associated with three men who were arrested afterwards and sentenced for passing counterfeit coin at Flemington last Derby day.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 335, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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102COUNTERFEIT COIN. King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 335, 8 February 1911, Page 5
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