Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — REMOVED STAMPS. [ARTICLE]

REMOVED STAMPS.

From Letters and Mail Carrier Was Sent to Prison for a Year. Indianapolis, Ind., Afty 17. John H. Belcher, rural mail carrier, South Bend, pleaded guilty before Federal Judge Anderson today to the charge of removing stamps from letters and was sentenced to prison for one year. Frederick Milhurn of Indianapolis pleaded guilty to the charge Of attempting to pass counterfeit dollars, but sentence was -not imposed. He says he found the coin in a can in the river here. B. W. Price, a furniture dealer, of Lafayette was fined $25 for sending threatening postcards to a man Who owed him $1.75. Dr. I. A. Defcheon of Crawfordsyille was fined S2OO for misbranding a medicine be manufactures. The Western Grain and Produce Company of Hammond was fined S2OO for misbranding stock food.