LETTER SORTERS IN TROUBLE

Press, Volume L, Issue 14978, 21 May 1914, Page 2

LETTER SORTERS IN TROUBLE

CHARGES OF THEFT OF LETTERS

(press association . telegram.) WELLINGTON, May 20. Frederick David Plimmer, a lettersorter in the Wellington Post Office, was charged at tho Magistrate's Court with theft, on "two occasions, of letters containine postal notes. The witnesses for the prosecution, included two male and two fema'e clerks in the employ of , TattersaU's, Hobart, who testified to the ; receipt of certain postal notes, with instructions to send tickets in certain sweeps. A detective stated that when In interviewed the accused, he made a statement in which he said lie had pur- ; chased a postal note for ten shillings from a woman—a stranger- This he had sent to Tattersali'e in the name of tho "Eileen" syndicate. ' Accused reserved his defenco, and was committed to the Supreme Court fo- trial. .-'. l

, AUCKLAND, May 20. Norman Tremain, aged twenty-one years, a letter-sorter at Auckland, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence on a charge of stealing letters from the posty-one. of which contained money. The theft was discovered through accused forwarding the missing postal notes for Tattersall sweep tickets.