Robbing the Post.
SENSATIONAL CONFESSIONS Bobert Peace Heighway, remanded from time to time in connection with the Auckland post office cases, pleaded guilty at the Auckland police court ou Tuesday to seventeen , charges, including the stealing of postal notes, forgery of postal notes, and receiving postal notes, knowing them to have been stolen. Heighway, who is only 17, and was until recently a postal messenger, made a sensational confession. In the course of it he said that he had been stealing notes from packages ever since he caught a fellow employee stealing money from a letter sixteen months ago. These he cashed, sharing the proceeds with the man in question, and he also gave notes to William Morrow Taylor, 19 years of age, to cash, sharing the proceeds with him also. Taylor confessed to four charges. He said that he had been cashing notes for Heighway ever since he left the post office eighteen months ago. The accused were admitted to bail, the sureties asked for totalling £1550. _____
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Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1904, Page 3
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168Robbing the Post. Manawatu Herald, 8 September 1904, Page 3
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