Show AW W T COLLET GUILTY had instructions from washington noton 0 to keep Po C money in bank required balance on hand at proper time at 1245 last thursday the case of the united states again against et at collett postmaster at vernal trent went to tho the jury after on an elaborate statement of tho the proper methods of handling gov goy eminent money by judge marshall ID in the united states staten federal court judge marshalls to the jury were not the usual ormal formal statement cf of tho the pro ot of the statutes but went lut into the particular case at band hand in great detail exercising the privilege allowed united stites judges of comminuting on tho the facts of the case and expressing an opinion as well as of expounding the legal features prior to tho the charge of the jury the 1 session of the court was consumed in a hearing clo closing arguments by the prosecution and defense the case seemed to b by go in its final status en on a leal legal technicality interpreted by an in specter who was pictured by the at torney for the defenso defense to b he of the big bully policeman typo type and who walked into tho the office of ot the po it master one after nou demanded a complete accounting and when all chri required cash via vias not found in the drawer took steps te to got autan out an indictment he finished his ins inspection 0 at 10 at night on the 9 eime ime afternoon on which he strived at vernal the law provided that Pos Bce money should bo be kept io in the office and forwarded to the head offic offices through checks on an a united states depository but la the case of at vernal tho the la Is very remote and to carry money to a united states bank is something of a journey both by stage and railroad fo that reason postmaster collett bad had written for instructions and pro aced 1 in evidence a letter from the department depart met authorizing him to keep Us lis money in the vernal bank and send in to salt lake checks on the lank or checks ha he had purchased from private individual individuals whose whoso credit hp b guaranteed under this authority ho lie bad hurl kept a bank account and while the required balance in tho the bank was not riot equal to the cash required by tho the inspector evidence was introduced to show that it would atys b bin in on hand in the usual course at of business |