United States v. Shults

OPINION OF THE COURT. This is an indictment against- the defendant [Nicholas Shults], charging him, while employed in carrying the mail of the United States, on a horse route, with the abstraction of certain letters, which contained bank notes and other articles of value. Plea not guilty—jury sworn.

John Keller, who is post master at Mount Ephraim post office, Noble county, in Ohio, states that defendant carried the mail from Sarahsville, in Noble county, to Washington in Guernsey county, a distance of twenty miles. In June, latter part, or first of July, witness mailed two letters for…