THEFT OF MAIL
•Press Asaociation.)
Porter Pleads Guilty
* . V (By Telegrapb—
CHRISTCHURCH, This Day.' . A plead of guilty to three charges of interfering with mailbags was- made in the, Magistrate's Court to-day- by William Malcolm Leitch, aged 21*, a railway porter. Leitch -was. committed for sentence, bail of £50 being allowed. In a statement to - th'e police read in Court. Leitch admitted opening bags on three Occasions 'on the. jorirney from Ashburton to Christchurch. T(t was so easy I eould not resist -the tempTStion," he said. ; A postal- inquiry officer gave evidence. fhat a total of £12 10/- was missmg from the bags., 1 — (
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 6
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104THEFT OF MAIL Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Volume 81, Issue 44, 15 November 1937, Page 6
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