POSTMAN CHARGED.
LOSS OF LETTER CONTAINING MONEY. (Per United Press Association.) WELLINGTON, August 28. A postman named Henry Edward Roberts, aged 21, who was arrested yesterday on a charge of having stolen a letter containing £2, the property of the Postmaster-general, appeared in the Magistrate’s Court to-day. Chief Detective Ward asked that Roberts should be remanded until Friday. As far as be knew there would /be five charges. Mr Bell, counsel for the defendant, said he thought that Roberts would plead guilty to the allegations. The amount involved in the five charges would not be more than £5. Roberts was remanded on hail till Friday. Suppression of the name wa» refused.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 20499, 29 August 1928, Page 6
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