DOMINION NEWS.

Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1919, Page 4

DOMINION NEWS.

THEFT OF REGISTERED LETTERS.

By Telegraph.-T-Press Association. . Whakatane, Last Night. Sam Karaka, a Native taxi driver, pleaded guilty at the. Magistrate's Court to a further charge of robbing a mailbag of two registered letters last February The evidence disclosed that the letters in question were posted at Taneatua for Auckland, containing £5 and £3 respectively. Accused, on September 12, When arrested on other charges, had confessed that he found the mail bag lying on the road. He took it into the trees, rifled it, and left the contents exposed to the weather. He assisted the policeman to recover the bag. He was committed to the Supremo Court for sentence.

ALLEGED RACING FRAUD. Auckland, Oct. 10. At the Police Court, Boyd Stewart Sutherland pleaded guilty and was committed for sentence on a charge of having attempted to obtain £22 by raise pretences from James Welsh, bookmaker, Christchurch, by falsely pretending that a certain telegram addressed to Roy .Matthews (otherwise James Walsh), purporting to invest £lO on Gold Kip had been lodged for transmission before a certain hour and in the form iii which it was ultimately received. The evidence was that the telegram was put in by accused himself at an outside office, that when it came to be sent to Christchurch accused himself Was the telegraph operator and he changed the name of the horse from Rebekah to Gold Kip. The telegram had been delayed in transit with the result that accused had knowledge by telegram of the winner of the race before the wire was transmitted to Christchurch.