People v. Santow

Plaintiffs in error, Jake Santow and M. Weinberg, were indicted, tried and found guilty in the circuit court of Stephenson county of attempting to obtain money by means of the confidence game and were sentenced to the penitentiary. This writ of error was then sued out.

Joe Warsawsky operated a junk business in Freeport, Illinois, under the name Freeport Iron and Metal Company, not incorporated. October 4, 1918, plaintiffs in error came and loitered about the gate in front of his place of business and after some preliminary conversation they announced to Warsawsky that they were market peddlers…