MAIL ROBBERY.
PROSECUTION OF FOSTER. (BT CABLE-PRESS (AUSTRALIAN AND N.Z. AND SOS CABLE.) LONDON. October 28. In the mail robbery case, the prosecution said that Foster, who was arrested in Hamilton. New Zealand, had, until the robbery, been hard up and living at Merthyr Tydvil, where he owed the Board of Guardians £2O for the support of his wife and child. The day after the robbery he reappeared and said that an Australian relative had bequeathed him money, which he was going out to get. He paid the Guardians £5. Meanwhile he opened an account with a London bank for £IOOO in the name of. Roberts. He used the alias of Thomas in a London hotel. The prosecution added that Foster, claiming he had had a successful day at the races, got a bookmaker named Chandler to exchange some hundred Treasury notes for bank notes. Chandler paid in the missing Treasury notes. .Witnesses identified accused as a traveller by the train on which the robbery was committed. .
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11
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167MAIL ROBBERY. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19145, 31 October 1927, Page 11
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