MAIL ROBBERY
HAUL OF POSTAL JiOTES
SHIP'S STEWARD ARRESTED,
(UNITED PRBSS ASSOCMTION.—COVIMGHT.)
SYDNEY, 28th October. A mailbag brought from New Zealand by the steamer Katoa to Newcastle was found floating in Newcastle Harbour, slashed k open. Apparently such letters as were worth while were purloined. The bag contained no registered matter, but many letters for Tasmania containing applications for Tattersall's tickets, accompanied by postal notes. All the letters., left in the bag had been opened, and over two hundred letters were discovered floating in the water. ' All had been opened. Nearly, every one had carried postal notes, the bulk consisting of applications for Tattersall's tickets. Oo'hbed postal notes had'been left untouched. A Hobart bag had been selected, those for Sydney and Melbourne being left untouched. One of the stewards of the Kataa has been arrested.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 7
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135MAIL ROBBERY Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 103, 29 October 1923, Page 7
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