United States v. Ryan

TRIEBER, District Judge.

The defendants demur to the indictment in this case, in which they are charged in five counts with violations of section 5480, Rev. St., as amended by Act March 2, 1889, c. 393, 25 Stat. 873 [U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696], for using the mails for a scheme to defraud.

The only use of the mails charged in the indictment is that the defendants, for the purpose of defrauding certain parties named in the indictment and others unknown to the grand jury, made use of the mails, by some of the defendants sending letters through the post office to another of the defendants, one…