OPENED A LETTER
A BOY’S CURIOSITY CHARGE DISMISSED Because be looked inside a letter, and because the letter contained a cheque, a small Eton-collared boy appeared on a criminal charge at the Children’s Court to-day. According to Senior Detective Hammond, the letter was delivered into a private box. Later a postman saw the boy coming along the road reading a letter. “I’ve just found it,” the lad explained. “I’d like to see who it belongs to.” It was stated for the defence that the boy found the letter on the road,' and being partly blind, he could not read the address on the outside. Therefore he opened it and finding the address on the inside, he took it to the addressee’s house and rapped on the door. As he could make no one hear, he went down the street and there met the postman. The case should never have been brought to court. Mr. E. C. Cutten, S.M., dismissed the charge.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 11
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161OPENED A LETTER Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 62, 4 June 1927, Page 11
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