People v. Hughes

The defendant was charged with stealing §275 from one Frederick Ohallacomb. It appeared upon the trial that the complainant answered an advertisement which appeared in the New York World, stating that he was looking for a place of business to go in of the kind referred to in the advertisement, and that he had §300 which he was willing to put up with an honest man. On the 20th of February the defendant called upon the complainant at his house in Elizabethport, N. J., introducing himself as the writer of the advertisement, and explaining that he had called in answer to the complainant’s letter.…