POSTMAN GAOLED
PROFESSIONAL SECRECY BROKEN. 'xhe courts in Paris have decided that inquisitive postmen who read pieture post-cards entrusted to them for delivery are bound by the rules of "professional secrecy," and a mailcarrier at Douai has been sentenced to six months' imprisonment for having talked too much about other people's secrets which he learned from their correspondence. A friend of his in charge of a level-crossing was kept informed of all that his wife wrote to a cousin in Paris. These revelations ended tragically. Having read one of his wife's communications, the level-crossing tender, Leon Alphonse, found her keeping a lover's tryst near Paris and shot her head. He was acquitted, but his postman friend whose gossip Isd to the tragedy, was punished.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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124POSTMAN GAOLED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 290, 2 August 1932, Page 6
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