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Show WESTERN Oil IS UlEfijilCIEIT NEW YORK, July 26. The Western Union Telegraph company was indicted by a federal grand jury here today on charges of having transmitted messages by mail. Two bills were filed against the Western West-ern Union.' Cine accuses the company of having violated the federal law which forbids the establishment of private express ex-press for the carriage of letters between points to whicii the government operates I mall Service. Eight counts In this Indict-! Indict-! ment cover routes taking in New York I and Boston, New York and Philadelphia, New York and Washing-ton-and New York and Baltimore. The second indictment charges violation of the federal code wjirch -forbitls transmission trans-mission of letters by such private express ex-press routes. This bill involves the company's com-pany's alleged system of sending night letters by private messengers instead of by wire. The indictments are against the company com-pany only, the officials hot being named. The company is expected to enter a plea on Monday. Federal attorneys alleged that 346,417 messages were carried by messengers between be-tween August 2, 1917, and June lo, 1918. The maximum penalty that could follow conviction would be fines aggregating $17,-320,830. |