Brown v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit
In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Western District of Missouri.
1Opinion of the Court
ADAMS, Circuit Judge.
The plaintiff in error was indicted and convicted for depositing a letter in the Kansas City post office in execution of a scheme to defraud in violation of section 5480 of the Revised Statutes [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696]. The scheme alleged in the indictment to have been devised by him is substantially this: that he would insert in a newspaper called the “Kansas City Packer,” the following advertisement: “Plow to speculate on Board of Trade. Sent free by J. L. Brown & Co., Gibraltar Bldg., Kansas City, Mo. Grain, Stocks, and Provisions. Ref. Am. Nat’l. Bank,” for the…
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