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Show CHARGE BANKER WITH RECEIVING STOLEN STAMPS Trial of Naftzger, Former BanK President, Is on at Wichita. WICHITA. Kan., March IT. I. F. Nsfuger, formerly president of ths Fourth National bank of thla city, waa put on trial In the federal court In this city thla morning on a chars of having received postage stamps stolen from aost-offlcs aost-offlcs by the John Callahan gang of postofflce and bank robbers. Callahan, with Ray Templeton and Edward Ed-ward Earl, two members of ; the gang, were convicted before the Naftigor cmse was called. Tempi ton aad Karl were found gum of robbing the rope and Bur dlt-k (Kan.) postofflcs and Callahan was oonvtcted of receiving . the stamps and selling them to Frank 8. Burt, who was then chief of police of Wichita. Judge Pollock refused to grant a con-t1nua.no con-t1nua.no of ths Kaf lager case today on account of the absence of three wltneaaaa for Naftsger. Harry J. Bona, the prosecuting prose-cuting attorney for ths government, prevented pre-vented the continuance of ths caas by admitting that the three absent witnesses would testify that they heard Frank . Burt tall Nsftsger that the stamps Burt had to sell ware not stolsn stamps, but that they rams from rewards earned by the police department In catching criminals crimi-nals for the government. The greater pert of the morning session of the court was spent la eecurine; a jury to hear the case. Frank Burt, who turned government witness in ths other stamp cases, has bsen subpoenaed to teatlfy for the govsrnroent In toe name of Naftager. |