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AUCKLAND CHEQUES CASHED CHARGES AGAINST TAYLOR ( Proin Our Own Correspondent) HAMILTON. To-day. The Hamilton Supreme Court was occupied yesterday with the hearing of charges brought against William Harold Melville Taylor in connection with the disappearance of a mailbag from Frankton Railway Station on September 3. Taylor, a land agent’s assistant. was charged with receiving two cheques valued at £lB 18s 4d and £lO, knowing them to have been stolen. In the lower court Taylor was charged with the theft of the mailbag, but this was withdrawn. The cheque for £lB 18s 4d was posted from Auckland by Messrs. Bond and Bond to G. Boyes and Co., Hamilton, and the cheque for £lO by the Brett Printing Co. to H. C. Baulf, Hamilton. Accused pleaded not guilty. Hubert Frank Mander. postal official, gave evidence ai to receiving the mail at 9.50 p.m. It was left on the post j office platform until 5 a.m. next day. I It was then found that the bag was I missing. Nicholas Peters, dispatch clerk, and William Henry Kearney, butcher, both of Auckland, gave evidence as to Tay--1 lor cashing two cheques, which they identified with the ones produced. The case was adjourned until to-day.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 17
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202MISSING MAIL Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 210, 24 November 1927, Page 17
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