POSTAL SORTER'S THEFT
BRAVERY IN THE WAR. LONDON, April 4. It is a lamentable ease of theft, said the prosecuting solicitor at the Tower Bridge Police Court, when a postal sorter was charged with stealing a letter containing a money order. Ihe solicitor related all the tacts, and added; “ That is one side ot the picture. Here is the other.” He read Iron) the text ol the London ' Gazette’s ’ official account ot the prisoner’s gallantry when he won the Victoria Cross in Trance, capturing two deadly machine gnn posts singlehanded. He added that the Post-master-General was tinding other employment for accused, where he would escape temptation. The magistrate hound over accused to be of good behaviour.
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Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 10
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116POSTAL SORTER'S THEFT Evening Star, Issue 19840, 13 April 1928, Page 10
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