The evening times., 1896-02-20
JEslS MAY LEAD TO JAIL
Saloonkeepsr Sullivan Held for
Violating the Postal Laws.
Composed and Illustrated an Obtec-
( tionable Valentine, Which he Sent
Female Cousin He Disltked.

David 8. Sullivan, n liquor dealer, was
held for the grand jury yesterday by jus
tice Mills. He is charged with violating
| the postal In ws.
Mr.. Sullivan got funny the day before st
Valentines, SO it is alleged, and concluded
to send his cousin. Mrs. Annie Kane, with
whom he was not on good terms, a vulen.
| tine that would interest much more than IL
would please. He thought, too. that il
might prove instructive, but considering the
character of the recipient, as he saw IL,
was not very hopeful.
| Mr.. Sullivan looked around among the
| shops for such a missive as he wished.
1t is said there were five hundred different
designs OF comic valentines on the market
| here on February 13 and IA, but Mr.. Sui.
livan couldn't find what he wanted.
He locked in the little shops nearest him,
and then went 10 the big stores and searched
| over pile after pile OF fantastic cartoons.
But there was nothing sharp and strong
enough to express his sentiments.
Finally, after supper on the 18th. he
sat down, school-boy fashion, to compose
valentine OF his own.
There was a reason why the valentines
Mr.. Sullivan examined in the shops did not
contain what he wanted to say. This first
developed clearly, even to his own mind,
when he came to say it.
He had felt 1t vaguely all the time, but
1t was only when he came to give his feel
ing expression in words that he realized
what was the matter. He wanted to say
something unparliamentary. or course the
print-makers could not put on paper FOR
the public gaze the thoughts that arose In
him.
Capt. Austin would have been after them.
But what reason was there, ruminated Mr..
Sullivan, why he should not In the privacy
of his own room unbosom himself to that
hateful cousin? Only she would ever see
II, and he would have the satisfaction OF
looking at her and knowing the poisoned
words had sunk home. She should vince
under his glance.
80 Mr. Sullivan prepared his valentine
with the bittefest iests he could devise
Coarse was no bar, and he illustrated IL
with rough pictures, and when he had
finished viewed his work with great satsfac-
ton. Early Friday morning he mailed it.
Then he waited for It's effect. 1t came
sooner than he expected.
Mr.. Sullivan had been sure his cousin
would have more sense than 10 show such
valentine to anyone. She would be
ashamed.
Then he had never heard OF United
States law against sending obscene let
tiers. But she did chow the valentine. and
some one told her Of the law. The next
thing after mailing his valentine that Mr..
Sullivan heard from 1t. was a warrant for /
his arrest in the hands OF deputy marshal. 4
II was preposterous, but Mr.. Sullivan mad
To go just the same.
When that valentine was read in Magis-
trate Mills court yesterday, 1t did not
sound half so funny to Mr.. Sullivan as when
he was writing it. He began to be doubtful
about some of the wit, and there were saw
agely obscene questions and allus ions,
whose coarseness was magnified tenfold
by hearing them in public.
When the decision came, holding him for
the grand jury, Mr.. Sullivan was not GER
tain he did not hear the 'crea king OF the
prison doors opening for him. His bond
was fixed at $500.