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Show Counterfeit Money. W. Rice is in custody for passing a counterfeit twenty dollar bill, purporting to be on the "City National Bank of Utica." This is the same denomination of bill, and on the same assumed bank as the one noticed by us yesterday morning offered to Mr. Baumgarten, but it is not the same bill, which shows that a number of them aro floating around. There is no such bank as the one specified spec-ified on the bill, though there is the "Utica City Bank," as a reference to the Bank Reporter will show. Besides this change in the title, the execution of this counterfeit is bad. The engraving en-graving is poor, and the vignette is blurred and smutty, so much so that a very inferior judge of notes could detect de-tect it in a moment. Rice says he received re-ceived it with a ten dollar bill," also spurious, to bind a bargain in the sale of some horses; and at his examination examina-tion yesterday he asked time to obtain ob-tain witnesses to prove his statement, which was granted him. The person who attempted to pass the other one of these notes is not yet in custody. It may be as well to state here that the punishment designated by the statute, for the crime of passing counterfeit coun-terfeit money, is imprisonment for a term not exceeding ten years or a fine of not more than one thousand dollars. Engaging in passing bogus bills with this prospect is poor business; in the language of John Unit "It don't pay!" Honest labor is a surer way of getting rich every time. "" III Ml 1 1 111,1111 |