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Show CHAS. PRICE AND HIS MONEY GOVERNMENT HAS BROUGHT ACTION AC-TION IN FEDERAL COURT. Attempt to Be Made to Recover the $2410 Which Passed Through the Postoffice. United States District Attorney H. E. Booth and Assistant United States District Attorney William M. McUrea, Tuesday, filed suit with Clerk Letcher of the United States district court against Charles G. Price and the Pln-gree Pln-gree National bank of Ogden. to recover re-cover for the government the $2410 which was received by Price on December De-cember 11, 1908, wrapped in a newspaper. news-paper. Not only is suit brought lor this amount, but for flvo cents extra, which was the cost of tho wrapper, and two cents postage, and costs of hearing. hear-ing. The complaint alleges that on the abovenamed date. a. newspaper, wrapped in a government wrapper, was received at tho Ogden postoflice, addressed to "Charles Price, Ogden, Utah," and that inclosed in the newspaper news-paper was ?2410 in currency and national na-tional bank notes. It is further alleged that Charles G. Price of Five Points received the package, but that he was not the person to whom it was consigned con-signed by tho sender, and that he has unlawfully been in possession of tho I newspaper, wrapper, postage and money mon-ey ever since, having refused to give these things over to a United States rostoffice inspector, when tho latter made demand upon him for them. Continuing, the complaint says that Price deposited the money in the Pln-gTee Pln-gTee National bank for safe keeping, and that although notified by the post-office post-office department that the package bad been delivered by mistake, the bank has refused to deliver the money over to the government. Th'e money is supposed to have been stolen from a bank in Portland, Or. It is understood that the government govern-ment will base its case upon a decision decis-ion rendered some time ago by a federal fed-eral judge in the case of a mall carrier who had stolen money from the mails. In that caso the court held that the money was the property of the government gov-ernment until it had been delivered to the party to whom it was addressed, address-ed, and that the government could therefore recover from the carrier. |