People ex rel. Deneen v. Matthews

This is an original proceeding by which it is sought to have the name of Webb P. Matthews, an attorney of this bar, stricken from the roll. The information charges two offenses which the evidence tends to prove: First, that respondent colluded with one Mary Manupelli, a married woman, for the purpose of practicing a fraud upon the courts of Cook county by representing to them that she had, in the month of September, 1903, been a resident of this State for one whole year next preceding that time, the fact being that she had only been a resident of the State since April, 1903; second, that…