United States v. Farnham

J. B. McPHERSON, District Judge.

The defendant was convicted upon an indictment drawn under the act of April 18, 1884. (23 Stat. 11, c. 26; 1 Supp. Rev. St. 425 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3679]), charging him with the following offense: that he “did, with intent to defraud one Charles Weingartner, feloniously, unlawfully, and falsely assume and pretend to be an officer and employé acting under the authority of the United States, to wit, a secret service operative of the Treasury Department of the United States, and did then and there, in such assumed and pretended character of an officer and…