Extract from Worcester Herald, Saturday 22 January 1881
Uttering Base Coin At Kingsnorton
Charles Jayes, aged 36, Iron Dresser, pleaded guilty to making and counterfeiting certain coin resembling current coin of the realm, shillings, half-crowns, florins, and sixpences, at Kingsnorton, on 20th December last, Mr Gresham Wells prosecuted, and Mr R. H. Amphlett defended, and in mitigation of sentence said the prisoner had pleaded guilty on his own account, but he (Mr Amphlett) entirely agreed with it. The learned Counsel admitted that the prisoner had been previously convicted; but in 1876 he received a good character from Messrs Hassell, Singleton and Co., Phoenix Foundry, Birmingham. – Mr Gresham Wells remarked that the charge was one of extreme gravity. – Sergeant Black, of Birmingham, produced the moulds found in the prisoner’s possession and said that he had been committed to nine months hard labour for a similar offence. He had a wife and five children – The Learned Judge observed that the case was a very bad one indeed, and without giving him an address or a sermon sentenced him to five years penal servitude.
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