People v. Lesser

The defendant, a Pole, who, at the time of his arrest, was 29 years of age, was employed by one Samuel Etreich as a canvasser for crayon pictures. On October 2, 1893, he called *751at the apartments of complainant, one Mrs. Foster, and endeavored to obtain an order from her for a crayon picture.- She stated “that she did not want anything more to do with picture people; that they were frauds.” Instead, however, of permitting him to go, she continued the conversation about the picture business, and finally invited him into the sitting room, to show him some pictures which she had bought from some…