PECULIAR THEFT CHARGE.
CB-y TelegraEh—Tress Association.) DUNEDIN, Tuesday. A case presenting some unjuaual features was heard before Mr. Bartholomew, S.M., at Middlemarch to-day, -when a railway cadet named Malcolm Alexander! Mclvor was charged with stealing, onj October 3, .the sum of £9 10/, the property of the Postmaster-General, while ftU.'h money was in his possession as an officer of the Government. Mr. Hanion, retained by the Railway Officers' Institute, defended the accused. The evidenco /or the prosecution showed that on the date of the alleged offence a man named MeKinnon handed In at the Middlemarch post- office a v-i'bbdTO,wal receipt for £ilo9. The accused asked him for _1, and then handed bafck what MaKinnon believed to be £110. MeKinnon took this monoy to a> neighbouring farcn owned iby a man muned Robertson, who accepted it in settlement of an account for £1108, and gave Jum £_ change. The money was piit in an envelope, and the prosecution alleged that Robertson's daughter later discovered that it contained a tun shillings note instead of a £10 note The defence was reserved, and the accused w_. committed for trial at the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in self £100 aud two sureties of £60 eaoh.
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Auckland Star, Volume L, Issue 251, 22 October 1919, Page 10
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