A POST OFFICE THIEF.
Napier, Aug. 23. A clerk in the Post-office, named Ilendell, has been arrested on charges of wholesale robbery. No one suspected him, but his wife informed the police, saying she could no longer rest under the knowledge of his robberies. According to her account ho has systematically opened letters in the office and abstracted sums of money varying from £lO downwards. When arrested he was engaged in opening Puketapu letters, and in Ids possession wore found 30 skeleton keys with which his wife states he has been in the habit of entering different shops in town and taking out goods he wanted. Dinwiddie, Walker and Co. are said to be the heaviest sufferers in this way. He will be brought up before the Resident Magistrate to-morrow.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2629, 24 August 1881, Page 2
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130A POST OFFICE THIEF. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2629, 24 August 1881, Page 2
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