Grey v. United States
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
. In Error to the District Court of the United States for the Eastern Division of the Northern District of Illinois.
1Opinion of the Court
BAKER, Circuit Judge.
Plaintiff in error was convicted of using the mails in aid of a scheme to defraud. Section 5480, Rev. St. U. S. (U. S. Comp. St. 1901, p. 3696). Briefly the scheme charged was that plaintiff in error obtained matrimonial agency fees from men by the false pretense that she had been commissioned by a rich and beautiful widow to find her a husband, and from women by the lure of a fictitious “retired business man, wealthy, but lonesome.”
The indictment was not challenged by demurrer or motion to quash; but a motion in arrest of judgment was overruled. No question is made but…
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