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Conviction Of A Postal Card Libeler

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Parent Issue
Day
1
Month
January
Year
1875
Copyright
Public Domain
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The New York Tribune of Friday saya : In the United States Circuit Court yesterday the trial of Moses Chamber ltiiu, for gending scurrilous postal cardu through the mail, resulted in hia conviction on all of the counts in the indictment, and he waa remanded for aentence. The indictment charged Mr. Chamberlain with aending through the mail fourteen carda of that kind, and, under the amended law, the groatest punishment that can be inflicted upon him ia ten years' imprisonment and. a fine of f 5,000 for each card, making in all, 140 years' impriaonment and a fine of 70,000. Mr. Chamberlain can, in the discretion of the court, be fined, or ïmprisoned, or both ; but if sentenced be moved on each count in the indictment, the lowest punishment, if a fine, must be $1,400, or if imprisonment, fourteen years, because the law sayu that the fine for each offense shall not be lesa than $100, nor the imprisonment for each offense lesa than one year. This is the first oase tried under the law making it a crime to send scurrüous postal cards through the mail, and for that reason, as well as on account of the standtng in the community of those most interested, it has attracted considerable public interest. A motion for a new trial will be made next Tuesday, and there are two more inaiotments against Mr. Chamberlain for like offense

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Old News
Michigan Argus