People v. Depew

The defendant was convicted of obtaining $2*5 of P. P. Coutrakon by means of the confidence game, and has sued out a writ of error to reverse the judgment.

Coutrakon is a Greek, who has lived in this country about ten years, and in April, 1908, was living in Springfield, as he had been for the previous eighteen months, working for his brother, who was in the candy business. He saw in a newspaper, and answered, the following advertisement :

“Wanted—Three young men; fair education; 21 to 35years; city and State; call on retail trade, sell and collect; experience unnecessary if willing to start $9…