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Show Revenue Stamp - .1 I Charges Dropped W. M. Penland, fceld Id default f 1 1 SO bonds by fedral officers following his arrest several days so. was released on $1000 bond Monday evening and th original chsrge of counterfeiting revenue stamp will bs dismissed snd a oomplalnt charging two violations of ths fsderal prohibition act will be filed, according to announcement by th office of United Ptate District Dis-trict Attorney Charles II. Morris. Penland, whom federal Inveetlsat- or Inclined to suspect of Implication Implica-tion In ths slaying of two revenue sgsnta during a "Hl-jacker raid on a Lexington. (Ky.) warehouse laat February, had no connection with that affair. It la aald. Pronouncement Pro-nouncement of Henry C. Tag gar t eecret service chief, of the revenue stamp found In Pen land's possession posses-sion as genuine led to dismissal of the counterfeiting charge, Penland, according to Taggart. secured his supply of stampa by soaking them off original bott.ee. and not from theft of a government aupply. N) charge could originate from this source, it Is said, without proving use of the stamps, and th federal agents have been unable to secure such evidence, it Is said. Penland. twice arrested In raids I by Bhertff Ben Harries on prohibl-1 prohibl-1 tlon violet lona, came tinder eua-plolon eua-plolon of the federal authorities when a supply of revenue etsmp were found In his pi see st 240 Kaet South Temple street. The $10,000 bond waa fixed pending lnvsstiga-; tlon of any possible connection he might have had In the double killing kill-ing at Lexington, federal officers aay. . ...... .... ( |