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.ALLEGED BOGUS BANK NOTES.
A Reputed " Spieler."
SYDNEY, oIrNAY.
AT the Water Police Coort to-day John
Buck was fined £1, or 14 deys' imprison
ment, for using indecent language at the
RanIdwiek Raceeoursoe on Boxing Day. He
wasesubsequently charged with having in his
possesbion nine pieces of paper purporting to
bh £10 notes, supposed to have been
stolen. The paper represented notes of
the Provincial and Suburban Bank, iTmited,
a defunct Zelbourno iostitution. Detective
Gouldor stated that a number of persons had
recently been victimiocd with the notes, and
had reported their loies to the police. Bunk
was a magsman and confidence man and the
asrceiate of bad characters The accused
said, "You can do nothing with them; they
are not signed; others have been arrested
and have got out of it." Mr. WYitliam
Dymcok gave evidence that the notes were of
no value ns money.but merely an curiosities.
A clerk of the Bank of Now South Wales
deposed that the notes would hardly be
issued or sold by the liquidator. The
magistrate admitted the evidence fcr
the purpose of arriving at the ocr.
elusion of Buck's legitimate possoessio
or otherwise. The accused gave evidence
that he received the notes in Me~ulbourne at
the time of the Cop from a man who had
been charged before a court with drunken
ness.. He received them as mere curios He
believed that the man who gave them to him
had been charged with having the notes in
his possession. He could not recollect the
name of the individual. Buock admitted that
he had been a spieler and magsman, but sid
that he relinquished the game eight months
ago. He stated that it was false that he had
practised similar pursuits at Goulburn. The
magistrate said that he was anxious to hear
the evidence of Superintendent Camphin, as
it was alleged that Buck had said in his pre
senoce that he had received the notes the day
he was arrested. The accused was rom:ndeod
till to-morrow, bail being allowed.
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