United States v. Halsey, Stuart & Co.

GEIGER, District Judge.

The indictment charges that defendants, “before and at the several times of committing the several offenses in this indictment hereinafter charged against them, devised a scheme and artifice to defraud and to obtain money and other property in the manner hereinafter described, from such members of a certain class of persons hereinafter referred to as the persons to be defrauded * * * whom said defendants could induce by means of certain false and fraudulent pretenses, representations and promises, to purchase certain gold debenture bonds of the Wardman Realty &…