The People v. Rogers

Joseph Rogers, otherwise called Joseph Rodgers, and Stanley Brookman were tried by a jury in the criminal court of Cook county upon an indictment charging they had obtained $500 from Simon Tro jar by means of the confidence game, found guilty and sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. Rogers prosecutes this writ of error.

From the evidence it appears that about 10:00 o’clock in the evening of July 23, 1939, Simon Tro jar, the complaining witness, a teacher, forty-five years of age, entered a rest room at Columbus drive and Seventh street in Grant Park, where an indecent proposal was…