Foster v. State

The defendant was convicted of cheating and swindling. It seems from this record that there was in Gaines-ville a grass-widow named Mrs. Robertson, and that she had as an intimate acquaintance the defendant, Foster, who was a young married man, connected with some kind of a show. According to Mrs. Robertson’s version of the transaction here involved, Foster told her that he represented a Cincinnati company which organized lodges and furnished counterfeit money to its members; that he could cause her to be initiated by her paying the sum of $100, and that she would receive $500 in counterfeit…