POLICE REPORTS.

 ARRESTED FOR PASSING COUNTERFEIT BANK NOTES. ––A young woman, giving the name of Mary Smith, and a man calling himself john Brown, were apprehended on Saturday evening, each charged with having passed a counterfeit five dollar bill, purporting to be the issue of the Continental Bank, boston, Mass. The woman palmed her counterfeit upon the proprietor of the drug store, No. 330 Second-avenue, in payment for a quarter's worth of medicine, while the other prisoner invested one of the notes at a shoe store kept at No. 324 hudson-street. It is though that other tradespeople have been swindled by the accused. and Justice CONNOLLY has temporarily committed them to afford opportunity for complainants to appear.

"The New York Times", March 18, 1961 ¹