SERIOUS OFFENCE.
OPENING REGISTERED LETTER
Auckland, Septemb. 25. When asked to order the suppression of the name of a letter-carrier, charged with opening a registered letter, Mr Poynton, S.M., flatly refused to-day, at the police court. He said the public confidence in the Post Office must not be shaken. The accused was Albert Charles Barnes, 26 years of age. Chief Detective Cummings said the accused opened two registered letters addressed to the same woman, but there was no suggestion that he deprived her of any money. Apparently money had been taken out of the letters and put back. The accused had (lieu given them to another postal official to baud to the addressee, His Worship said he had decided to grant probation but to mark the seriousness of the offence probation would be for two years.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2790, 27 September 1924, Page 3
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136SERIOUS OFFENCE. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVI, Issue 2790, 27 September 1924, Page 3
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