Baxter

Defendants have been indicted for using the mails in furtherance of a scheme to defraud. The scheme as set forth in the indictment, and stripped of the accompanying legal ver *474 biage, is that the defendants, as physicians, should by means of advertisements induce certain persons named in the indictment, and others to the grand jurors unknown, to communicate with them relative to real or supposed ailments, and that defendants should then, by means of letters and through the Post-Office Department, and irrespective of any symptoms communicated to them, and even in cases where the symptoms indicated health, rather than disease, and without any real knowledge of the condition of the person so induced to communicate with them, state to such person that he was afflicted with a disease which defendants could cure, and that they would furnish treatment for such disease for a certain sum of money, and by means of such letters would induce such person to send them money for the purpose of procuring medicine and treatments skillfully and properly designed and prepared for the cure of the disease with which such person was afflicted, or had been induced by them to belieVe himself…