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The engineer, Victor Hatherley, said of the machine "The walls were of wood, but the floor consisted of a large iron trough, and when I came to examine it I could see a crust of metallic deposit all over it."

Sherlock Holmes believed: "They are coiners [makers of counterfeit coins] on a large scale, and have used the machine to form the amalgam which has taken the place of silver.", and his theory was proven likely as "Large masses of nickel and of tin were discovered stored in an outhouse.", and Inspector Bradstreetsaid that the police had traced a gang to the areawho "have been turning out half-crowns by the thousand".

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