Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — INSPECTOR GETS TONGUE LASHING [ARTICLE]

INSPECTOR GETS TONGUE LASHING

Postoffice Sleotb Is Rebaked la Federal Court - f . __ CANCELLED STAMP CASE District Judge A. B. Anderson Indignant Because Woman Was Taken From-lnvalid Husband and Her Baby to Be Arraigned on the Charge That She Tried to Reuse a 2-Cent Sticker—Asks to See Complainant Face to Face. Indianapolis, June 4. —Judge A. B. Anderson of the United States district court became indignant because Mrs. Ida Hord of Scottsburg had been brought before him on the charge of using a cancelled 2-cent stamp, reverely rebuked the inspector who had caused the arrest and released the woman. The prisoner explained that she had left an invalid husband and a baby at home.

“I can’t understand,” Judge Anderson said, “the viewpoint, the makeup of a postoffice inspector who would stir a case like this and bring this woman here. If I can find out who this Inspector is, I will bring him here and give him a chance to explain things."