People v. Gilman
Michigan Supreme Court
Error to recorder’s court of Detroit; Chapin, J. E. Medford Gilman was convicted of conspiracy to defraud, and sentenced to imprisonment in the Detroit house of correction for two years.
1Opinion of the CourtHooker, J.
The defendant was convicted of the offense of conspiring with others to cheat and defraud one Edwin H. Sadler of the sum of one dollar. The proof showed that the defendant professed to be a materializing medium, and gave “materializing seances,” in which he was assisted by others mentioned in the proof. Sadler was a detective, and attended with another detective. Before the proceeding began, defendant said that the usual collection of one dollar would be taken up, and *188Sadler, among others, paid a dollar. During the proceedings Sadler succeeded in exposing the defendant as an impostor.
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