Show SHERiff ARRESTED fOR OPENING MAL MALOf oU Of HIS PRISONERS CHICAGO Nov Xo o. o Fred iL-Fred Fred F F. Carter Rh sheriff of Lake Jakc count county Indiana one of tho most prominent rl residents i nl of Crown CrownPoint CrownPoint CrownPoint Point was as Arrested by b- States Marshal D David vid C l Rankin of Indianapolis charged with in hn having opened the mail of Alexander a 3 former prisoner I The case Me is unusual in the history of I criminal jurisprudence If H the government govern govern- o ment mont establishes its contention it is dp de dared sheriffs deputy sheriffs wardon war war- don and Dd other officials in penitentiaries jails jaiL and similar institutions throughout b ut the country are in iti l dan danger cr crof of a 0 liko experience One chic the other hand baud friends friend of Carter I point out that if officials in jails ils and prisons AlA ari for forbidden id en to open the mail of prisoners plots for escape ma may lie be U hatched with Impunity and and forbidden i articles raD ranging from cigarettes to the tho deadliest poisons mn may be sent scat through h i ithe I the mail to prisoners Sheriff Carter was taken hiken into custody I Ion on a warrant issued by United States I I Commissioner Charles L. L. L Surprise of I Hammond He furnished bond in 1000 to appear before the federal I grand rand jury I in in Indianapolis next Friday Frida i Federal officials declare that opening the letters of a prisoner comes clearly within the federal statute forbidding tampering with the tho mails They The sav v further th that thit t this is a a. test case and will establish a a. legal leial prece precedent ent Sheriff Carter freely admitted that ho he opened the mail of but asserted asserted as as- sert d that tha he believed he was acting clearly within his bis ri rights and in con con- with his duty to see that po forbidden en articles were ere smuggled led into the jail iaH or schemes arran arranged ed for tor a 3 jail delivery |