Word: defraud
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...after refusing a $10,000 bribe to appoint someone else, Governor Warren T. McCray of Indiana appointed honest William H. Remy prosecuting attorney for Marion County. Governor McCray soon went to Atlanta penitentiary for using the U. S. mails to defraud, the prosecutor of the case being Governor McCray's own appointee, young Mr. Remy. The latter was pointed out on the streets of Indianapolis as "that rising young prosecutor." Before long he succeeded in sending David Curtis Stephenson, Grand Dragon of the Indiana Ku Klux Klan and producer of votes for a consideration, to jail for the murder...
...House of Representatives and H. Thomas Knight, another anti-Johnston agitator, summoned their colleagues to secret conclave in the Huckins Hotel. In pajamas, night-shirts, bathrobes and galluses, without chairs enought to go around,† the sleepy statesmen preferred charges against Governor Johnston, including incompetency, conspiracy to defraud, improper appointments, illegal use of state funds. They also framed charges to impeach Chief Justice Frederick P. Branson of the State Supreme Court, author of the decision declaring them a nonlegal gathering...
...floor walker, the ice salesman, the tailor and the leather worker who were empaneled three weeks ago in Washington D.C. to decide the guilt or innocence of the aged New Mexico politician (Albert Bacon Fall) and the opulent oilman (Harry Ford Sinclair) in their alleged conspiracy to defraud the U. S. ( TIME, Oct. 31), had listened for over a week to legalistic intricacies. Between court Sons they were free to go to their homes, their only instructions being to avoid discussing the case and making up their minds pre-judicially...
...newspapers were opionated as Grocer Cooperman as to the probity of the defendants. But few talesmen had read about the case at all. A dozen peers whose lack of knowledge was adequate were soon chosen to try whether or not the Messrs. Fall and Sinclair conspired criminally to defraud the U. S. Besides the bricklayer, clerk, telephone instructress, electrician and tire repair man, the dozen included an auto salesman, a baker's delivery man, a leather worker, another clerk, a floorwalker, an ice salesman, a tailor. They settled themselves in their box and prepared to try to understand, weigh, decide...
...affairs could be of little interest to the public. The public, though, became interested later when they discovered that Warren T. McCray had been involved in a shady scheme to recover some of the wealth which he had undoubtedly lost. When he was convicted of using the mails to defraud, they were scandalized. When he was sentenced to ten years in Atlanta Prison, they were sorry for him. That...