The Police Gazette, which we especially object to, and which our law punishes the exhibition and distribution of, has a right in the U.S. mails , and can be carried into our state.”

Whoever sells, lends, gives away, or shows . . . any book, pamphlet, magazine, newspaper, story paper, or other paper devoted to the publication, or principally made up of criminal news, police reports, or accounts of criminal deeds, or pictures and stories of immoral deeds, lust, or crime . . . shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor . . .