LOVE LETTERS OPENED.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1246, 30 September 1911, Page 6

LOVE LETTERS OPENED.

THREE YOUNG MEN COMMITTED FOR SENTENCE. Threo well-dressed young men named Jool Vicar Rowley, Charles Berry Simons, and William Holmnn Henderson, apjwvircd before Mr F. V. Fraser, S.M., at tho Whaugarci Magistrate's Court (writes tho correspondent of tho Auckland "Herald"). Rowley,'a railway official at Ilikurangi, was charged with having on or about Juno 1 opened a letter lasted by Daisy Deeming, a Ilikurangi resident, and Simons, a postal official, was charged with allowing the otl'enco to bo committed. Henderson was charged with destroying a parcel of circulars, and was further charged, in conjunction with tho accused RowIcy, with having opened letters addressed lo* two Natives named I'ctoue and* Kuapjkapoka. Mr. Steadniaii appeared far Rowley, mid Mr. Harrison for the other two accused. It appears that at nikurangi tho post office is situated in the railway station. In consequence of a report received early in .Tunc Inst, Detective Hollis proceeded to Hikurangi, and ns the result of inquiries Simons mado a confession, and implicated the other two accused. Simons iu this confessions admitted, openinpf nine or ten letters, niul said that ho did it for fun. They were mostly letters from young ladies to their lovers. A young lady named Daisy Deeming gave' evidence, ond said that she had been keeping company with Rowley, but a coolness sprung up between theiu. Soon after sho wrote to a young man in Taranaki, and subsequently n remark that Rowley made concerning the, controls of the letter mado her suspicions. She said that several Idlers she had received showed signs of being tampered with. Sho stated that vis the rc«ult of the defective's investigations Rowley had come to her and asked her lo shield him, but she refused. Counsel for tho accused asked that they slinuld lie dealt with summarily.

The charges against Henderson and Rowley for oponing letters addressed (o Pi'lo'.io and Ruapekni>oka were withdrawn by the polico, and the three accus-d pleaded guilty to all the other charges, and were committed to the Auckland Supremo Court for sentenco.