BAIL REFUSED IN £IO,OOO CASE.
PROCEEDINGS HELD UP TILL POLICE RECEIVE PAPERS FROM HOME. (Special to the “ Star.”) WELLINGTON, June 15. Joseph Foster, who was arrested at Hamilton recently on a charge of the theft of £IO,OOO, the property of the British Government (four registered parcels of Treasury notes which were being carried in the Cardiff-London mail on February 22) appeared before -Mr Riddell, S.M., to-day. An alternative charge was preferred of receiving the money knowing it to have been dishonestly obtained. Accused was remanded till June 23. Mr Wilford applied for bail, saying that he understood that there would be other remands till warrants and documents arrived from the Homeland. The police opposed the application and bail was refused, the Magistrate saying that another application could be made next week.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18182, 15 June 1927, Page 4
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131BAIL REFUSED IN £10,000 CASE. Star (Christchurch), Issue 18182, 15 June 1927, Page 4
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