MAIL SORTER’S THEFTS
LETTERS STOLEN ON TRAINS NINE CHARGES ADMITTED Press Association WELLINGTON, To-day. Douglas Arthur Burnett, aged 22, a postal clerk, appeared In the Wellington Magistrate’s Court on nine charges of stealing letters containing postal notes to the value of £9 15s. Evidence showed that, until a week ago, accused was a postal cadet at a salary of £155. His duties consisted of sorting letters in the mail room and assisting the agent on mail trunk trains to sort letters between Wellington and Taihape and' back. When faced with the charges in regard to two notes he cashed in Wellington accused was quite candid, and gave information of other thefts of which the department was ignorant. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 623, 27 March 1929, Page 1
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126MAIL SORTER’S THEFTS Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 623, 27 March 1929, Page 1
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