huss. and Forged Banknotes Sentence of expulsion and six months' imprisonment was passed on a Russian named: Morris Reuter, described as a compositor, of No. 36 Chapoo Road, who was brought before the Mixed Court last Friday on a charge of assault. He was further charged with being in possession of material for forging bank notes on March 25.
Detective-Inspector Cruickshank said he saw the complainant, Sam Sudakoff, at the police station. He was badly injured about the head, and in 2 state of collapse. Witness, at the instance of Sudakoff, arrested the prisoner, who, when charged, admitted the assault. His reasons for such behaviour were partly private and partly because the complainant owed him $75. The man said he had given complainant 30 negatives of banknotes, which had not been returned. It was already known that some one was engaged in counterfeiting banknotes, and Sudakoff was not in a position to return the negatives, as they were in the hands of the police. The accused, who was a printer, would have had little difficulty in making lithographs from the negatives.
Sudakoff stated that he knew the accused's family, and met him in Range Road. They spoke together in a narrow alleyway. The accused had said: "Give me back my pictures." It was then that complainant was assaulted. The accused used a knuckleduster.
Prisoner admitted the charges against him, but said he had: not asked for the return of the negatives. There was an accomplice, he continued, who was acquainted with Sudakoff. The man, who stayed-at the Great Eastern Hotel, and was reputed to be rich because he made false money, had asked defendant to keep the "pictures" for a while.
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