Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1902 — Hands Off the Mail Boxes. [ARTICLE]

Hands Off the Mail Boxes.

If mischievous country boys or drunken hoodlums think for a moment that they can in any way harm or molest or injure a rural mail box, they are mistaken. These boxes are as sacred and carefully looked after as the safe in the postoffice in New York City, or the registered packages in the railway mail trains. They must not be touched, except by the postmen and those who receive the mail through them. The following is an illustration: Deputy United States Marshal Boyd, of Indianapolis, has just arrested and placed in the Vigo county jail Nathan Kester, a former, who resides a short distance from Terre Haute. Kester is accused of violating the postal laws. He is said to have knocked a mail box off a fence on one of the rural routes and caused his wagon to run over the box and destroy it. It is said Kester at the time was in an intoxicated condition. Mr. Boyd took Kester before the United States commissioner at Terre Haute, where he waived examination and was bound over to the grand jury. No boxes in this county have been reported as having been molested.