Five excellent imitations of dollars were on view ast the Mixed Court recently. So like real dollars were they that shopkeepers were induced to exchange them for small money. It was explained that the accused then before the Court was found in possession of three of them and that he had uttered two others, As an experiment, Inspector Morrison sent the dollars out to local shopkeepers to see whether they could detect that they were counterfeit, but each one of them failed to discover that they were spurious. The shopkeepers astonished to learn that they could have been victimized. The accused said that only one of the dollars was his. He was sentenced to two weeks' imprisonment, and the Coort ordered that the coins be destroyed.
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