People v. Suffern

The defendants have been convicted of the crime of conspiracy under an indictment which charges that on or about the 20th day of February, 1930, they unlawfully and corruptly conspired to cheat and defraud one Ella Patterson out of property and to obtain from her by false pretenses 600 shares of the common stock of the Curtis Publishing Company; that in pursuance and furtherance of the said conspiracy the defendants organized on March 4, 1930, a corporation called General Industrial Foundation; that on the 4th day of June, 1930, the defendants, by falsely pretending that 2,000 shares of class…