AN UNUSUAL CASE.

Rangitikei Advocate and Manawatu Argus, Volume XLV, Issue 11927, 22 October 1919, Page 8

AN UNUSUAL CASE.

Per Press Association,

Dunedin, October 21. | A case presenting some unusual features was heard before Mr Bartholomew, fc>. M., at Middlemarch today, when a railway cadet named Malcolm Alexander Mclvor was charged with stealing on October 3rd the sum of £9 10a, the property of the Postmaster-General, w'hile such money was in his possession as an officer of the Government. Mr Hanlon, retained by the Railway Officers’ institute, defended.

The evidence for the prosecution showed that on the date of the alleged offience a man named McKinnon handed in at Middlfrcuarch Post Office a withdrawal receipt for £lO9. Accused asked him for £l, and then handed back what McKinnon believed to be £llO. McKinnon took, this money to a neighbouring farm owned by a man named Robertson, who accepted it in settlement of an account for £IOB, and gave him £2 change. The money was put in an envelope and the prosecution alleged that Robertson’s daughter later discovered it cm.rained a ten shilling note insted c r a £lO note. The defence was reserved and accused committed for trinl at the Supreme Court. Bail was allowed in £IOO and two sureties of £SO each.