DETAINING REGISTERED LETTER.
WELLINGTON, March 14. A: traveller, whose name was suppressed, was. charged before Mr J. H. Salmon, S.M., to-day with wilfully detaining a registered letter which ouglit to have been delivered to his wife at New Brighton. It was stated in evidence that defendant said he had a right to take delivery of his wife’s correspondence. Subsequently the letter was returned to the chief postmaster. Detective Jai-rold gave evidence that accused told him he ..left his wife in December, 1926, owing to domestic troubles, and had asked the New Brighton, postmaster to send all correspondence to him. He was going to hand the letter over to his wife personally. He was committed for trial in the Supreme Court, bail in £5O being allowed.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 7
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125DETAINING REGISTERED LETTER. Otago Witness, Issue 3862, 20 March 1928, Page 7
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