The Indianapolis Journal

Tampering with U. S. Mail.
Felicity Price has filed charges in Justice Sears's court which may result seriously for James Mitchell, a money lender, whom she charges with opening a sealed envelope addressed to her and taking from it a check for $36 which she says he spent for his own use. Mrs. Price is an old lady who draws a widow's pension amounting to $36 each month. She charges that Mitchell went to the postoffice, where he represented himself as her guardian and in that way received a letter addressed to her. Mitchell had loaned Mrs. Price $8 and demanded that she send him a pension check to secure the money, but this she refused to do and he got it himself. After obtaining the check he went to her house and, it is claimed, compelled her to indorse it and thus was able to get the money on it. Mitchell claims he opened the envelope only to ascertain the numbers on the check so that he might compare them with the ones given him. The case will be tried Monday and Mitchell says that he will make a tender of the money in court.