Steward v. People

Plaintiff in error was convicted in the criminal court of Cook county of the larceny of a draft for §50 from Herman Klepstein, and was sentenced to imprisonment in the penitentiary. Defendant was a doctor, occupying an office in the Lakeside Building, in Chicago. Herman Klepstein resided near Groton, South Dakota. He came to Chicago December 29, 1897, with a car-load of stock, arriving at the Union Stock Yards at four o’clock in the morning. He delivered his stock and then fell in with one Timothy Englehard, who was in the habit of bringing patients to defendant and receiving some…