STEALING FROM MAIL BAG.
[Peb Press Association.]
WHAKATAXE, October 2. Sam Kakana, a Native, driver of the mail car from Whakatane to Teteko, pleaded guilty to stealing £4 12s 9d Irom a mailbag in April, and was committed to the Supreme Court for sentence. The evidence and Kakana’s confession indicated that when alonoin the car he pulled the string through the lead seal of a mailbag received at Awakere, extracted a registered letter, retied the string round the Uroith of the bag, and squeezed the seal together. The letter was missed, hut not traced till last month, when Kakana was under arrest on other charges and confessed.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 12761, 3 October 1919, Page 3
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