DETENTION OF LETTER.

Auckland Star, Volume LIV, Issue 50, 28 February 1923, Page 13

DETENTION OF LETTER.

■t —■ —— YIELDED TO TEMPTATION. YOUKG MAN" PLEADS GUILTY. fiy Tele.rap-— <">*<" n Correspondent) HAMILTON", this day. 4 young man named William Matthew' George Stevenson pleaded guilty before Justices Walsh and Henry, at Hamilto"' yestf>rrlay. to unlawfully detaining a registered letter. Evidence jhowed that Mrs. M. Stevenson., of Cambridge, had been sent a registered letter from Auckland containing £2.2. She was notified that it had been sent, but did not receive it, and it transpired that the letter had been addressed to W.I instead of M. I. Stevenson. It was shown that accused was staying with hi« parents at Karapiro, near Cambridge, when he received a telephone message from the post offlce that there was a letter awaiting him. He later called at the counter, and was handed the registered packet, for which he

signed. In a confession to detaining the packet, given to Detective Culloty, Stevenson said that on reading the letter which accompanied the money he 'discovered it was not meant for him, hut he was hard up at the time, so 'yielded to the temptation to keep jt. fie intended to repay the sum as soon as '_c could afford it. Before he left Camtridge he made inquiries for Mrs. W. I. ': Stevenson, hut could find no trace of ter. He was willing to make tionAccused was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.