People v. Mader

Plaintiff in error, Fred Mader, (herein called defendant,) and Orrington C. Foster, were, “with other persons to the grand jury unknown,” indicted by the grand jury of Cook county for conspiracy. The indictment contained six counts charging various conspiracies, as follows: First count, to defraud the Woman’s Exchange of Chicago of $1400 by means of a confidence game; second count, to defraud the Woman’s Exchange of Chicago of $1400 by false pretenses; third count, to cause certain laborers to boycott the Whitestone Company unless the Woman’s Exchange of Chicago paid them $1400; fourth count,…