United States v. Taylor
U.S. Circuit Court for the District of Eastern Virginia
This was an indictment against the defendant [E. R. Taylor], as a postal-car clerk, engaged in the postal service of the United States, on the mail route from Washington City to Lynchburg, Virginia, on the Orange, Alexandria & Manassas Railroad, for embezzling a letter intrusted to him which was intended to be conveyed by mail and to be delivered at the town of Charlottesville, the letter having been addressed to John T. & Henry McColly at the University of Virginia, and…
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This was an indictment against the defendant [E. R. Taylor], as a postal-car clerk, engaged in the postal service of the United States, on the mail route from Washington City to Lynchburg, Virginia, on the Orange, Alexandria & Manassas Railroad, for embezzling a letter intrusted to him which was intended to be conveyed by mail and to be delivered at the town of Charlottesville, the letter having been addressed to John T. & Henry McColly at the University of Virginia, and having contained fourteen coupons, each for ?35, aggregating to ?490 in value; the letter having been deposited at the…
1Opinion of the Court
HUGHES, District Judge.
Section 279 of the revised postal laws, divested of the words which are inapplicable to the offence charged in the indictment in this case, is as follows: “Any person employed in any department of the postal service of the United States who shall secrete, embezzle, or destroy any letter intrusted to him, or which shall come into his possession, and which was intended to be conveyed by mail, or carried by any person employed in any department of the mail service, and which shall contain any banknote, bond, draft, promissory note, or agreement for the payment of money;…
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