THEFT OF LETTERS
YOUNG MAN COMMITTED FOR
SENTENCE. (Per United Press Association.) Wellington, November 25. Pleading guilty to breaking and entering the shop of H. M. McGirr and stealing goods valued at £lO 8/6, with stealing 220 postal packets and letters from the Te Aro Post Office, and to attempting to steal money and stamps to the value of £2, the property of the Henry Balfour Burden, aged 21, was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. A detective stated that the mail contained cheques to the value of £3OOO, none of which was negotiable. About six had not been recovered and the accused said those had been burnt. The greater part of the mail was recovered.
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Southland Times, Issue 21561, 26 November 1931, Page 7
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117THEFT OF LETTERS Southland Times, Issue 21561, 26 November 1931, Page 7
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