Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 160, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1912 — Re Very Careful What You Send Through the U. S. Mails. [ARTICLE]

Re Very Careful What You Send Through the U. S. Mails.

- —* — Sometimes through ignorance, sometimes through thoughtlessness and sometimes because they believe it will never language is used in correspondence. This is a serious infraction of the postal laws of the country and any person apprehended after committing an offense of this character stands a chance of spending a few years in the federal prison at Leavenworth, «,Kans. A young man named John S. Goodrich, timekeeper for the steel company at Gary, is now awaiting trial in jail at Lafayette for having violated this law. He wrote a vhlgar letter to a man in Colorado Springs, whom he accused of having caused him to lose his job while working in that city. The letter was turned over to an inspector and Goodrich was arrested and it is said will certainly be convicted and sent to prison.