POSTAL ROBBERY.
SENTENCE PASSED
BY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION —COPYRIGHT Received Nov. 13, 11.35 a.m. . LONDON, Nov. 12. . * A sentence of five years’ pehai servitude has been passed at tee JDld Bailey on Albert Wm. Henry Rickard, the posthian who pleaded guilty to stealin°* two mail bags containing notes, bills and cheques valued at £95,000 10s 9d. lhe evidehoe .showed that Rickard, who was employed as guard ion a postal can, carried off the bags to a hdUse, where'he had previously taken a furnished room.. He shaved off his nipustaohe and disappeared, leaving the empty bags and burnt remains of the bill® .and cheques. He was arrested in a public house., - Out of £2050 notes stolen only £41.3 were recovered. i
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 9
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119POSTAL ROBBERY. Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 13 November 1924, Page 9
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