Word: defraud
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Died. John M. ("Gentleman Jack") Phillips, 54, alleged sewer pipe monopolist of Queens Co., N. Y., indicted for conspiracy to defraud New York City of some $8,000,000, and the U. S. of $1,376,134 in back taxes & penalties (TIME, Jan. 2, et seq.); of kidney trouble; at Atlantic City...
Last week the Mayor of Chicago was declared guilty, with six other men, of conspiring to defraud Chicago of $1,732,-279.23. Judge Hugo Friend of the Circuit Court wrote the decision, ordered the Mayor and his fellows to restore the boodle...
There was a new judge. There was a new jury. There was a certain amount of new evidence. But it was the same old case-the U. S. v. Oilman Harry Ford Sinclair for alleged conspiracy to defraud...
Harry Ford Sinclair, oilman, who last week faced trial, a second time and less hopefully, for criminal conspiracy to defraud the U. S., has learned a lot about Destiny. Sinclair is not yet 52 years old. He was born in Wheeling, W. Va. It is less than 25 years since he was first heard of in Wall Street and on Long Island as a wealthy young parvenu from the midwestern oilfields. It is not 30 years since he was the son of a village druggist in Kansas, a son who, when his father died, lacked the patience to keep...
John Wilson Snook (warden of the Atlanta penitentiary) selected from his flock a new chauffeur-Josiah Kirby, famed swindler of Cleveland, Ohio, who is serving a seven-year term for using the U. S. mails to defraud. Mr. Kirby's Cleveland Discount Co. had dealt in mischievous mortgages to the extent of more than...