Commonwealth v. Drew
Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court
Indictment in twenty-seven counts. The first count alleged that Silas S. Drew, of Boston, on June 13, 1890, “ at Boston aforesaid, being a person of an evil disposition, and devising and intending by unlawful ways and means to obtain and get into his hands and possession the goods, merchandise, chattels, and effects of the honest and good citizens of this Commonwealth, and with intent to cheat and defraud Ariel B. Crocker and Frederick I. Pratt, copartners, then doing…
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Indictment in twenty-seven counts. The first count alleged that Silas S. Drew, of Boston, on June 13, 1890, “ at Boston aforesaid, being a person of an evil disposition, and devising and intending by unlawful ways and means to obtain and get into his hands and possession the goods, merchandise, chattels, and effects of the honest and good citizens of this Commonwealth, and with intent to cheat and defraud Ariel B. Crocker and Frederick I. Pratt, copartners, then doing business under the firm name and style of A. B. Crocker and Company, — and with the view and intent by means of and under the…
1Opinion of the CourtKnowlton, J.
The evidence in this case tends to show that for several years prior to J une 1, 1890, the defendant had been in the business of selling dry goods at retail, having all the time one store, and during the last part of the time two stores, in Boston; that up to that date he paid cash for substantially all dry goods purchased, but after that, until his failure on September 6, 1890, he made large purchases from numerous persons, all on long terms of credit, none of which had expired at the time of his failure. It was also found, that on twelve different occasions between May 24, 1890, and…
2Cases cited1 opinion
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