MAIL BAG ROBBERY
TWO BROTHERS ARRESTED. (By Telegraph. Press Association.) WOODVILLE, Wednesday. Two brothers, who were suspected of being concerned in the robbery of letters from the registered mail on the Wahine, which arrived at Wellington from Lyttelton on January 11, were followed to Woodville from Wellington by detectives, who arrested them on the Woodville racecourse to-day. They were taken back to Wellington by motor car, and will appear in the Magistrate's Court to-morrow. It is understood that a £5 note was found in the totalisator at Woodville which bore the number of one that was in the stolen mail matter.
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Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2271, 21 February 1929, Page 5
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101MAIL BAG ROBBERY Waipa Post, Volume 38, Issue 2271, 21 February 1929, Page 5
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