INTERCEPTED A LETTER.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXII, Issue 18942, 13 February 1925, Page 12

INTERCEPTED A LETTER.

CRIMINAL CHARGE LAID. MAN AND MOTHER-IN-LAW, \ [si TELEGRAPH. —OWN COTIRESrONDENT. J HAMILTON. Thursday. A charge of unlawfully detaining a postal package was preferred at Hamilton to* day against Lawrence Norman Morrison, living at Takapuna. A statement by accused was read, in which he said he had asked the postman i on the street if ho had any letters for Morrison, earc of Mrs. Evans, 69, Massey - Street, Frankton. The man had handed liim a letter which he had put in his pocket without noticing the address. When he examined the letter he found that it was addressed to Mrs. Evans and not to Morrison, and _he therefore rcposted it without opening it. He stated that his reason for asking for the letter was that he wanted to find out who was writing to his wife. The postman from whom the letter was ! received, Francis Horan, alleged that ac« ; cused asked him if he had any letters for ! Evans. ... Florence Evans, mother-in-law of the accused, said that his wife had seen him talking fo the postman and had asked him if be had received any letters and he had denied doing so. Accused pleaded not guilty and was committed to the Supreme Court for trial*