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COUNTERFEITS OF NEW COINS: TWO YEARS FOR TWO MEN

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new ten-cent It was alleged that Chan entered coins, which have been in circu-a shop at Taun Wan and attempted lation since the latter part of last to purchase articles for which he year, have baffled the local under- tendered the counterfeit coins, world.

while Lay waited for him at the With almost a years experi-entrance of the premises. menting, forgers have been un- The forged money was, however, successful, and one who can detected, and the accused were manufacture à coin, similar to handed over to the police. Forty- the new issue, to even "put it two coins were found in the posses- across" an uneducated villagersion of Lau. has yet to be found.

After evidence by several wit- This was illustrated at the nesses, the jury found them guilty. Criminal Sessions this morning,

They were sentenced to two

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when two Chinese were arraign-years' hard labour. ed before the Acting Chief Jus- The prosecution was conducted tice, Mr. Justice R. E. Lindsell, by Mr. John Whyatt, Crown Coun- charged with conspiring to utter counterfeit coins;. with uttering] counterfeit coins; and, with pos- session of counterfeit coints, in Tsun Wan, New Territories.

Chan Hing-kong and Lau Shing were the accused.

Additional charges of uttering the coins to Leung Sau-hing and Chan Lin-sang were preferred against the first, and of possession of 42 counterfeit coins against the second.

They pleaded not guilty, stating that they did not know, the coins were forged.

FIRST OF KIND

This is the first case of its kind in which counterfeits of the new coins have been involved.

Kwong Chui, a cargo boat coolie, was yesterday admitted to the Queen Mary Hospital suffering from injuries sustained when his boat collided with a steam launch, near the Wing Lo Wharf.

ASIA HOTEL THEFT

Chan Wai-shun, residing at the Asia Hotel, has reported the loss by theft of a draft for $3,000 drawn on the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank, and his personal chop last night....

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