People v. Cotell

Plaintiff in error was charged with the crime of confidence game under an indictment returned in the criminal court of Cook county. The indictment consisted of four counts, all but the first of which, however, were either quashed or nolle prossed. The charge in the first count of the indictment, on which the plaintiff in error was convicted, was, that he and Mary C. Anderson obtained certain bonds, jewelry and other valuables, the goods and property of the Englewood Safety Deposit Company, a corporation, by means and by use of the confidence game. Mary C. Anderson, co-defendant, was granted a…