COUNTERFEITERS RAIDED
TIMELY COUP BY POLICE IN MELBOURNE THREE MEN ARRESTED By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright MELBOURNE, Sunday. The police raided a house at Brighton, seven and a-half miles south-east of Melbourne, and found a complete plant for the printing of spurious banknotes They also seized 2,000 counterfeit £1 notes. Three men, Claude Smith, of New Zealand, John Thornton, and Frank Thornton, were arrested, and charged with conspiring to forge notes. The police state that the notes were to have been circulated at the races on Melbourne Cup day.—A. and N.Z.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 189, 31 October 1927, Page 9
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