Word: defraud
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...Percy Jay Fuller, Manhattan stockbroker, was convicted in June 1928 of using the mails to defraud in a scheme to convert garbage to gasoline. Released from Atlanta Federal Penitentiary last June, New York authorities requested his extradition on a perjury charge connected with the same case. Governor Russell refused on the grounds that Fuller's further prosecution was an attempt to collect a private debt...
...Luke Lea 6 Son were about their publishing business in Nashville last week when they learned that the U. S. Supreme Court had for the second time refused to review their appeal from a conviction of conspiracy to defraud a bank in Buncombe County, N. C. Free under bond, the Leas were ordered rounded up to serve jail sentences. Onetime U. S. Senator, close associate of brash Banker Rogers Clark Caldwell, Col. Lea tried to kidnap the Kaiser as a Christmas present for Woodrow Wilson...
...Republican majority leader who would not have succeeded to the Speakership even under favorable circumstances was Connecticut's gangling Tilson. When his party went into the minority, he was displaced by New York's Snell as leader. * Convicted of using the mails to defraud, the slickers were sentenced last week to seven and five years in Atlanta Penitentiary. * Last week "Hampton," the 100-year-old Wadsworth home at Geneseo, burned to the ground in its owner's absence. Loss...
...trial in Manhattan last week for using the mails to defraud were Lynn E. W'olfe, onetime auditor of Joseph Pulitzer's estate, and Murray Olf, stock promoter. They were charged with mulcting investors in Southern Cities Supply Corp. of $1,700,000. An unexpected witness against them in Federal Court was Illinois' white-maned Representative Henry Thomas Rainey, Democratic floor leader of the House. Democrat Rainey's story...
Just as Mr. Stuart expected, the indictment charged him and five of his executives with using the mail to defraud. The indictment was issued in Chicago, home office of Halsey, Stuart & Co. Banker Stuart and his two indicted Chicago partners promptly surrendered and posted a bond guaranteeing their appearance in Milwaukee where the trial will be held...