A CHARGE OF THEFT.

Taranaki Daily News, 22 October 1919, Page 4

A CHARGE OF THEFT.

AN UNUSUAL CASE, By Telegraph.—Press Association. Dunedin, Last Ni4ht. A case presenting some unusual features was heard before Mr Bartholomew, S.M., at Middlemarch to-day, when a railway cadet named Malcolm Alexander Mclvor was charged 'with' stealing, on October 3, the sum of £9 10s, the property of the PostmasterGeneral, while such money wad in hit possession as an officer of the Government. Mr Hanlon is fttaiflfd by the Railway Officers' Institute to defend. The evidence of the prosecution show* ed that on the date of the alleged of* fence a man named McKihhon banded in to the Middlemarch Post Office ft withdrawal receipt far £lO9, The accused askfed him-for £l, and then handed back What MeKinnon believed to be £llO. MeKinnon took this money to a neighboring farm owned by a m&h named Robertson, who accepted it in settlement of an account for £IOB, and gave him £2 change. The money was put in an envelope and the prosccu* tion alleged that Robertson's daughter found it contained a ten shilling note instead of a £lO note. The defence was reserved and the ac« cused was committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Bail was fixed in self at £lO9, and two sureties of £SO each.