The Portland daily press., 1892-02-27


to an Employe of the Portland Screen
Company Who Was Asked to Sell
List of His Company's Customers-Mr.
Burrowes Placed Under $4,000 Bonds
He Will Have a Hearing This Morning
He Denies All Wrong Doing.
Box No. 1917 in the Portland post Office
has been playing an interesting role in
surprising affair that has been going on
in this city for several weeks. Yester-
day forenoon United States Marshal
Saunders arrested Mr.. E. T. Burrowes,
at his screen manufactory on
Free and Spring streets, and he was
at once taken to the United States court
room, where he was arraigned upon
the following complaint before United
States Commissioner Rand:
UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
10 EDWARD Nj. RAND, Esquire Commits
sioner of the Circuit Court of the United States
Hamilton ". Hall post office inspector of the
United States in behalf of the United States in
on oath, complains, and informs your
Portland, % '-i' in said State of Maine, hay-
ing devised a scheme and artifice to defraud
the Portland Screen Company, q corporation
existing and doing business at said Portland to
be effected by opening correspondence and
communication with one Clarence L. Cummings,
an employe OF said campany, by means Of the
did at said Portland, on the fieeenth day of JAN
| uary, in the year of our Lord, 1892, in and for
executing such scheme and artifice. to defraud,
I nInn rvf ftan nf1in of ffa nj
there situated a certain letter addressed and
directed to the postmaster Boston, Mass.
against the peace and dignity of the said United
States, and contrary to the form of the Statute
in such case made and provided. And the said
complainant further gives your Honor to be in
formed, that the said Bnrrowes ,.!l may how. how
be found in the said District OF Maine, after
committing the aforesaid offence
Wherefore the said complainant prays that
the said Burrowesi may be M appreheaded. e.tni and
dealt with relative to the same, according TO
law.
that Clarence L. Cummings Lewis A. Goudy
George d. Loring and Leroy ). San6orn OF FORT
land in said district and Hamilton w. Hall. post
office inspector may be duly summoned to ap-
pear, and give evidence relative to the subject
Post Office Inspector.
United States of America, Isl
State of Maine, IS.
PoRTLAND, Feb. 26, 1892.
Wen the above named Hamilton w. Hall,
posi- ONCE Inspector. PERSONALLY dppcdlcu, dliu
made oath to the truth of the above complaint,
by him subscribed before me
EDWARD M. RAND,
Commissioner Of the US. Circuit Court for the
Maine District.
To this compliant MI. Burrowes plead
not guilty and gave bonds in $4,000 for
appearance from day to day, Messrs.
Fred E. Richards and Frank NJ. Strout
being sureties. The case was continued
until 10 o'clock.
The law under which Mr.. Burrowes
has been arrested is paragraph $3.50 Of
the Revised Statutes of the United States
relating to the use of the United States
mails in scheme to defraud The pun
ishment for a conviction of an Offence Of
this sort is fine of $500 or imprison
onment for is months Or both, at the dis
cretion of the court.
The story which lies behind the formal
proceedings in this case is long and in
teresting. Mr. Burrowes has long been
resident of Portland. His father and
mother came from Ireland to America.
his father being of English and his
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