£IO,OOO MAIL ROBBERY.
FOSTER BEFORE COURT.
EVIDENCE FOR PROSECUTION.
PROM POVERTY TO AFFLUENCE,
(Australian and N.Z. Cable Assn.) (Received October 29, 11.15 a.m.)
LONDON, October 28
In the £IO,OOO mail robbery case, the prosecution said that Foster (who was arrested in Hamilton, New Zealand, and recently brought Home) until the robbery had been hard up, and was living at Merthyrydvil, where he owed the guardians £2O for the support of his wife and child. The day after the robbery he reappeared, and said that an Australian relative had bequeathed Ihm money which he was going out to get. He paid the guardians £5, and meanwhile he opened an account with the London Bank for £IOOO in ttie name of Roberts. He used the alias of Thomas in a London hotel.
The prosecution added that Foster, claiming that he had had a successful day at the races, got a bookmaker named Chandler, to exchange some hundred Treasury notes for bank notes. Chandler was paid in the missing Treasury notes.
Witnesses identified accused as a traveller by the train when the robbery was committed.
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Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 7
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182£10,000 MAIL ROBBERY. Waikato Times, Volume 102, Issue 17242, 29 October 1927, Page 7
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