United States v. Post

LOCKE, District Judge.

The indictment presented for examination, after striking out surplus words and allegations, alleges, in substance: That one Helen Wilmans Post had devised a scheme to defraud. This scheme was this: She pretended she could cure all diseases and poverty by mental science, and as a pari of the scheme she advertised and represented in certain pamphlets and circulars that she possessed the power by that method to effect, cures of disease, weakness, and poverty, and would treat persons in their absence, and in such advertisements requested people, to open correspondence with…