THEFT OF REGISTERED PACKETS.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXXI, Issue LXII, 11 May 1912, Page 8

THEFT OF REGISTERED PACKETS.

COMMITTED FOR TRIAL AUCKLAND, May 10. A young man named Stewart Good pleaded guilty to two charges of stealing registered postal packets in June, 19il, the property of the PostmasterGeneral. In one case a registered letter was delivered at a house where accused was staying. He received and signed for it, and annexed the contents (£4^ In the other case, while at the -Posi Otfrce at Runciman, he took advantage of the postmistress's absence to abstract three registered letters from the mail-bag which the postmistress had left while she fetched sealing wax. Good went to Sydney, and was arrested" oh his return. He was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence.