INTERFERING WITH MAIL BAGS
ADMITTED DY RAILWAY SORTER I liy Telegraph—Press Association! CHRISTCHURCH, This Day. A plea of guilty to three charges of interfering with mail bags was made in the Magistrate's Court to-day by William Malcolm Leitch. aged 21 years, railway portet. Leitch was committed for sentence, bail of £SO being allowed. In a statement to the police read in Court Leitch admitted opening bags on three occasions on the journey from Ashburton lo Christchurch. “It is so easy. I could not resist the temptation,” he said. A postal inquiry olllccr gave evidence 1 hat. a total of CI2 10s was missing from the bags.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 15 November 1937, Page 5
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