Alleged Larceny of Stamps.

Feilding Star, Volume XVII, Issue 126, 26 November 1895, Page 2

Alleged Larceny of Stamps.

For some two or three weeks past (says the New Zealand Times) the officials of the Post and Telegraph Department have had reason to suspect that a quantity of stamps, whtch had been placed on telegraphic and cable messages, bad been stolen from the store to which such messages are sent after they have been telegraphed. It is the practice of the department, it appears, to keep them in the store for six months, at the end of which time they are sent to the pulping machine, audit was while they were being kept there that the stamps were stolen. Investigations made by the Department' showed that some of the stamps had been disposed of to dealers at Dunedin and elsewhere, and it is believed also that some have been sold even as far off as MclI bourne and Sydney. The matter was [ recently placed in the hands of the police, and on Saturday Chief Detective Campbell arrested two young man named Alexander G. Fabian and Bernard E. Watts on the* charge of stealing a quantity of stamps, the property of the New Zealand Government. Fabian is employed in the Telegraph Stores, and lives in the same house with Watts in Dock street. A good many of the atamps are for large sums, aud some were discovered by Detective Campbell in the house of the accused.