IMPRISONMENT FOR THEFT
POSTAL MESSENGER PLEADS GUILTY (P.A.) AUCKLAND, January 23. A postal messenger, Colin Hooton. aged 44, pleaded guilty in the Magistrate's Court to stealing postal packets containing four pairs of silk stockings and a woman’s satin sleeping su l ;. valued at £3 ICs; also other packets containing 34 pairs of silk stockings, five handbags, and other article •. valued at £lB 18s. The police said for the year before Hooton's arrest the department had received numerous complaint? of the non-delivery of packages. Hooton was a married man with five children, defending counse' said. He had a long and honourable record as a postal officer and as a soldier in the last war. and he was unable to explain why he had submitted to the temptation. The Magistrate 'Mr J. H. Luxford) sentenced Hooton to three months' imprisonment on one charge. On the second he was convicted and discharged.
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Press, Volume LXXVIII, Issue 23545, 24 January 1942, Page 8
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