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The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
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James Wilson Hyde
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A
sailor
applied
for
a
missing
letter
containing
a
money-order
for
30s.,
which
he
said
had
been
sent,
but
had
not
reached
him;
but
when
he
found
that
the
matter
was
under
strict
investigation,
he
confessed
that
the
money
had
been
paid
to
him,
and
that
he
had
denied
having
received
it,
in
order
to
excuse
himself
from
not
paying
a
debt
to
the
person
with
whom
he
lodged.
"A
person
having
applied
for
a
missing
letter,
said
to
contain
two
L10
and
one
L5
Bank
of
England
notes,
and
which
he
stated
had
been
sent
to
him
by
his
father,
it
appeared
on
inquiry
that
no
such
letter
had
been
written;
and
he
afterwards
confessed
that
his
object
in
asking
for
the
letter
was
a
device
to
keep
in
abeyance
a
pecuniary
demand
upon
him
by
his
landlady."
Some
years
ago
a
person
complained
that
twelve
sovereigns
had
been
abstracted
from
a
letter
received
by
him
while
it
was
in
transit
through
the
post,
but
he
was
told
in
reply
that
the
envelope
bore
evidence
that
it
had
not
contained
coin
to
that
amount.
This
person
then
communicated
with
the
sender
of
the
letter,
who
persisted
in
declaring
that
she
had
put
therein
the
amount
stated.
At
this
stage
of
the
inquiry
an
officer
was
despatched
to
investigate
the
matter;
and
upon
his
requiring
the
woman
who
had
sent
the
envelope
to
accompany
him
before
a
magistrate
to
attest
the
truth
of
her
statement
upon
oath,
she
confessed
that
the
statement
was
false,
and
explained
her
conduct
by
saying
that
she
had
promised
to
lend
the
person
to
whom
the
envelope
had
been
addressed
L12,
but
that
she
had
been
unwilling
to
do
so,
as
she
felt
sure
that
she
should
never
get
her
money
back
again;
and
that
she
determined,
therefore,
to
keep
her
money,
and
throw
the
blame
on
the
Post-office.
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