Offences: Theft > mail theft; Theft > mail theft
Verdicts: Guilty > pleaded guilty
Punishments: Imprisonment > hard labour
LAKE, Herbert (23, labourer), pleaded guilty of on December 20, 1912, stealing a postal packet and 15s. 2d., the property of His Majesty's Postmaster-General, he being an officer of the Post Office; on December 23, 1912, stealing a postal packet and 5s., the property of His Majesty's Postmaster-General, he being an officer of the Post Office.
Mr. Forster Boulton prosecuted.
Sentence: Nine months' hard labour on each indictment, to run concurrently.