In re Barber

SEAMAN, District Judge.

The petitioner is imprisoned upon commitment by a commissioner of this court for alleged violation of section 3893, Bev. St., as amended by the act of congress of September 26, 1888 (25 Stat. 496), in sending through the mails envelopes, unsealed, containing dunning letters, described in the complaint and mittimus as follows:

“On the outside of which envelopes in which said dunning letters were inclosed was printed in ten points, or long primer French Clarendon, type, in the English language, the following libelous, scurrilous, and defamatory words *981and language, to wit,…