Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 May 1911 — PRISON FOR RURAL CARRIER [ARTICLE]

PRISON FOR RURAL CARRIER

Gets One Year tor Trying to Use Stamps Second Time. Indianapolis, May 19. —With the remark that it would have to be understood that a government employe who was intrusted with funds or put in a position of trusrt must obey the law, Judge Anderson sentenced John H. Belcher, a South Bend rural mail carrier, to the federal prison for one year for removing; stamps from mail for the purpose of again using the stamps. The five counts in the indictment to which Belcher pleaded guilty charged the removal of stamps of a total value of 11 cents.