THEFT BY POST OFFICE CLEANER
XP.A.) AUCKLAND, August 21. Employed as a night cleaner in the Wellesley Street East Post Office, Elizabeth Estrop, aged, 38. married, pleaded guilty in the. Magistrate’s Court to-day to 17 summons charges of stealing postal packets containing money to the value- of £l3, and parcels valued at £2 13s, from the post office. The police said Estrop confined her, attention mainly;to the city council’s letter box,
extracting money and throwing away the envelopes. Defending counsel said Estrop had been mutually separated from her husband, but had been reconciled since her husband was captured by a German raider from the steamer Komata, and he was now paying her £3 weekly She had been battling hard for herself and two children, succumbed to a sudden temptation, and kept on stealing. On one charge Mrs Estrop was fined £ls, on another admitted to probation for 12 months, and ordered to make restitution of. £ 18.
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Press, Volume LXXVII, Issue 23414, 22 August 1941, Page 10
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