THEFTS FROM POST OFFICE
YOUNG m PLEADS GUILTY [Per United Press Association.] WELLINGTON, November 25. Pleading guilty to breaking and entering the shop of H. M. M'Girr and stealing goods valued at £lO 8s 6d, to stealing 220 postal packets and letters from the Te Aro Post Office, and to attempting to steal money and stamps to the value of £2, the property of the Postmaster-General, Henry Balfour Burden (twenty-one), was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A detective stated that the mail contained cheques to the value of £3,000, but none wore negotiable. About sis had not been recovered, and the accused said that these had been burnt The greater part of the mail was recovered.
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Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 8
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118THEFTS FROM POST OFFICE Evening Star, Issue 20959, 25 November 1931, Page 8
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