MAIL ROBBERY.
EVIDENCE AGAINST FOSTER. London, October 28. In the mail robbery case, the prosecution said that Joseph Foster, who was arrested in New Zealand a month or two back and extradited to England, until the robbery was hard up and living at Merthyr Tydvil, where he owed the local guardians £2O for the support of his wife and child. The day after the robbery he reappeared and said that an Australian relative had bequeathed him money, which he was gong out to get. He paid the guardians £5, and meanwhile opened an account at a London bank with. £IOOO, in the name of “Roberts.” He used an alias of “Thomas” at a London hotel. Witnesses identified him as a traveller on the train when the robbery was committed. According to the prosecution, Foster claiming that he had a successful day at the races, got a bookmaker named Chandler to exchange some hundreds of Treasury notes for bank notes. Chandler paid these Treasury notes into the bank, and they were found to be the missing ones.
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3711, 1 November 1927, Page 3
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176MAIL ROBBERY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XLVIII, Issue 3711, 1 November 1927, Page 3
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