ALLEGED THEFT OF MAIL.
JURY FAILS TO AGREE.
ORDER FOR NEW TRIAL.
[BY TELEGRAPH. —PRESS ASSOCIATION.] NEW PLYMOUTH. Thursday.
After a trial lasting two days, the jury to-night failed to agree on charges against William Percival Leonard Knight, of stealing postal packets from eight postboxes in New Plymouth, and four at Stratford, and in addition with attempting to break and enter a chemist's shop at Waitara. A retrial was ordeod.
Raymond J. V. Elliot;, had previously pleaded guilty to similar charges, and he and his wife alleged they had been present with Knight during the commission of offences. They said all the boxes had been smashed open with a tyre lever.Several hundreds of letters were taken, opened and thrown away after some postal! notes and bank notes had been extracted*
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20425, 29 November 1929, Page 12
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