THEFT FROM A MAIL BAG
Telegraph—Press Association. v Whakatane, October 2. Sam .Kakana, the Native driver of -a mail car from Whakatane to Tcteko, pleaded guilty to stealing d 84.125. 9d. from A-mail bag'in April, and was sent, to tho Supreme Court for sentence. The evidence and' Kakana's confession indicated that when alone in the car he pulled tho string through the lead seal of a mail bag received at.Awaken,' extracted' a registered letter, retied the. string round the mouth of the bag, and squeezed the seal together. The letterwas missed, but not traced till last month, when'Kakana was under arrest on other charges, and confessed'.
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Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 October 1919, Page 8
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106THEFT FROM A MAIL BAG Dominion, Volume 13, Issue 7, 3 October 1919, Page 8
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