PLEA OF GUILTY
THEFT OF POSTAL PACKETS.
By Telegraph—Per Press Association)
WELLINGTON, November 25
Pleading guilty to breaking and entering tbe ishop of H. M. McGirr and stealing goods valued at £lO 8s 6d, stealing 220 postal packets and letters from Te Aro post office and to attempting 'to steal money and stamps of a value of £2, the property of the Postmaster Gtneral, Henry Balfour Burden, 22, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A detective stated the mail contained cheques of a value of £3,000. None were negotiable. About six were not recovered and the accused said those had been burnt. The greater part of the mail was recovered.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/HOG19311125.2.51
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1931, Page 6
Word count
Tapeke kupu
112PLEA OF GUILTY Hokitika Guardian, 25 November 1931, Page 6
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
The Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd is the copyright owner for the Hokitika Guardian. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of the Greymouth Evening Star Co Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in