MAIL THEFT CHARGES
NEW TRIAL TO FOLLOW JURY’S DISAGREEMENT KE9L ~ Press Association NEW PLYMOUTH, Today. After a trial lasting: two days, the jury last evening failed to agree on charges against William Percival Leonard Knight, of stealing postal packets from eight post-boxes in New Plymouth, and four at Stratford, and in addition with attempting to break and enter a chemist’s shop at Waitara. A retrial was ordered. Raymond J. V. Elliott had previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and he and his wife alleged they had been present with Knight during the commission of offences.. They said all the boxes had been smashed open with a tyro lever. Several hundreds of letters were taken, opened and thrown away after some postal notes and bank notes had been extracted.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 833, 29 November 1929, Page 18
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128MAIL THEFT CHARGES Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 833, 29 November 1929, Page 18
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