POSTAL SORTER'S THEFT.
BRAVERY IN THE WAR. LONDON, April 4. It is a lamentable case of theft, said the prosecuting solicitor at the Tower Bridge Court, when a postal sorter was charged with stealing a letter containing a money order. The solicitor related all the facts, and adde<s: "That is one side of the picture. Here 13 the other." He read from the text of the London Gazette's official account of the prisoner's gallantry when he won the Victoria Cross in France, capturing two deadly machine-gun posts, single-handed. He added that the Postmaster-General was finding other employment for accused, where he would escape temptation. The magistrate bound over accused to bo of good behaviour.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19917, 10 April 1928, Page 9
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114POSTAL SORTER'S THEFT. New Zealand Herald, Volume LXV, Issue 19917, 10 April 1928, Page 9
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