Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-23
MANY CASES.
Grand Jury Reports in
Circuit Court.
Bills for Postoffice Robbery ana
Internal Revenue Matters.
Indictment for Using the Mails 70
Defraud.

Portland, Me-, Sept. Tine gram
,urv n tn. United states Circuit court
,rhich has been considering eFlh"h'@
for tvo DAYS. reported, late this after
noon. Among tn. indictments returned
vas On. against NJ. ". Fralin of Ban
.or for using the United States mall'
to defraud. Fralin is 10" III the Jan
at Augusta.
F,sIiu uscd an Oh sch"m" but "he
ubIcb can always u" depended upon
"a catch VII, tins. II. Inserted ad5 III
.ey.taI western nDA -paI RS for sales
men IA sell cigars unGer the name o.
IN. Bangor cigar 20. His mail WAS
,..rv large but he worked the scheme
so cleverly that h" operated soiile III"
before being caught. I" all ahSW r7
Ia hfs advertisement he wrote pr"MlS-
ing a positinn and asking that SD d"
e.nt 10 cover the costs or the SdtlpI"
cas-. tut as far as tin officers c"uii
learn the sampI,. ca+'. H'S never S~lit-
Their. Is a Bangor cigar Manufacture
ing 40. in Bangor. which does legltI-
mate. bIsint So but tn =" Is y" f'HIiS"r
Cigar 90. Notice az a money oflef |"
the Bangor Cigar ~. was receiver pE
A. X. Glass, thu. money order 'Itfk az
The Bangor postoftic+'. ana after walt
ing two weeks for the order to he pre-
scented. Mr.. Glass notified the Bangor
cigar Manufacturing 90. but TINS
conpany had not ..ceivci tn" oder.
A few days later Fr;tlin presented th's
IN. tt. h.A T.
;.or cigar co., and which WAS endorsed
hv that company payahl" to NJ. w
FrnIin. Th.. endorsement was not
properly made ont IS the rules 81 tn
poStotiicr department requires thdt inc
manager or prophet " Of TN" company
shall sign his nan- Mr.. Glass refused
to pay the order until it was properly
endorsed ana explained to Frhln what
.vas necessary While Mr.. Glass WI.'
away from the Office Frtlin returned
with the order. purporting to b" en-
dorsed by A. J. Murray, aS manager
Of the company. AMI as Mr. Murray
-, known to have been in tn" ci@Ar
business In Bangor. the order VAS paid
by 4 clerk.
Later = Western dupe. who had sent
SO to the Bangor Cigar 60. com
ulaiacd to the post one" department
ana Post oftice Inspector Jennings WH'
put on the case.
There was no description of III" MOI
and very little evidence to work on
but from Il water mark in tn" Letter
paper and the printing at It's head In
suector Jennings traced tn" company
to Frllin and arrested him.
At the post ofiic" he was identified
bv Nh. Glass rs thr man who present
ed the order ana when confronted b
tn" evidence admitted that he was tn
bangor Cigar 60. and that he HI
forged tn" name of a. J. Murray to tn
postal order.
indictments We're found for the rob
berry Of a post office. in several pos
Office cases smuggling and interna
revenue cases.
The trial jury came in. this morning
and was cmpanelcd as follows:
Elmer w. Jones. FoXCroft. foreman
Victor A. Mutty. William r. Fades
Nrnwer: Cortez Smith and Georg" II
Fairfield. Fairfield: Stanley A. Annis
Foxcroft: Daniel r. Skoticld. Harps
well: Edgar L. Small. Eden y. Palmer
Machiaspurt: George w. Lord Nortl
berwick: Samuel Dudley. Oxford
Daniel H. Reed. Portland.
mrraries-Leonard u. aWrd
Portland: William II. Palmer, Gardi
nrr G. Fernald. Wilton.
William F. Neal, North Berwick, ex
CuSed.
The grand jury in the United states cir
cult court returned the following indict
ments tonight:
Marshall w. Fralin. Bangor using tn
mails in scheme to drfrdud: Olive
Greenwood. Portland. assisting a dtsertc
to escape: Grurl;iluua Powell. Rucklant
ward Arnold. WilinantiC. operating Il
Illicit liquor diStillcry; George NJ. Sabii
Bancroft. making false oath to a p"nsio
claim. Philip Wagner. ritt>n"ld hreab
Ing and entering a poStoiiic" AMI larceny
Henry +, Euzzcll. Lewiston, fotging
money order 1t Readtield: John Curral
Calais. Herman Murchir st Strihen. y
L. smuggling eggs; George Smith. Car
hnu George r Ecll Ashland. John Cy,
caribou. John Ward Caribou. ~mugCIin
Huuor; Clarence RnuChard ana Paul Thil
sdcau. Connor Plantation. Edward Clote1
IIoulton. William Rarkcr. lIoultoI
smuerliug: James clifford Chelsea Sellin