United States v. Fay

ADAM tí, District Judge

(orally). This is an indictment under section 5480, Ltev. Hh, charging the. defendant with having devised a scheme to defraud, involving the use of the United States postal establishment The scheme, as charged, is to impose upon the credulous by pretenses that he, the defendant, liad some mysterious, superhuman power; among other things, to penetrate with mental vision into the bowels of the earth, and discover the location there of supposed hidden treasures. It is charged in the indictment that, in furtherance of this scheme, the defendant wrote to one Howard, of…