ARREST OF "A BACH."

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 99, 29 December 1913, Page 5

ARREST OF "A BACH."

POSTAL OFFICIALS IN TROUBLE. [Per Press Association:! Dannevirke, December 29. < On Sunday morning «;bout 2 o'clock the police arrested five young men living together on charges of receiving property knowing the same to have been stolen. Three of them—Lindon Harold Frost, Percy Stanley Prebble. and Albert Hugh Toomer—are postal officers. The other two were Richard Wilford Wratt and Theodore Brown. The arrests were due to a report to the police by the principal' of a hardware firm that his stock was mysteriously disappearing* One of the quintette, was suspected, and on being interrogated is alleged to have incriminated the others. Two other youths were also before the Court in connection with the affair—Gordon Gillespie and Charles David Eversen. These two worked for the firm from whom the articles were missed and were charged with theft thereof. They were all remanded for eight days, bail being allowed, self in £25 and one surety of £25 each.- The police had further investigations made, and it is said that -there is a possibility of clearing up further mysterious disappearances 'which have occasioned general public inconvenience, and in some ea,ses monetarv loss. ,