PROMPTED BY JEALOUSY.
POSTAL DIRECTION FORCED. MAN ADMITS OFFENCE. (BY TELEGRAPH PRESS ASSOCIATION.) DUNEDIN, June 28. Knowing that a. woman with whom he had kept company was receiving letters from a man in America, Ernest Rasmussen forged a re-diirecition order so that the letters would come to his hand®. R’asm.usseii pleaded guilty this morning and was committed for sentence. The woman. Vivienne Beach, married and separated from her husband, stated she had known accused for three years, and had received financial help from him. The accused’s statement was that he knew she got letters from America and was jealous, so he put in the redirection order. Had he got any letters, he wuold have sent them to- her after getting the information he wanted. Counsel for accused, commented on the tacit that the Miagistr ate had no power to deal with a case like this, where there was no motive of material gain, yet he could deal with like cases where there was intent to defraud.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 28 June 1926, Page 11
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