Dale

Defendants have been indicted for using the mails in furtherance~of a scheme to defraud. The scheme averred was that defendants should, under the name of the Universal Company, pretend and represent to one Daniel N. Schneider that his father, lately deceased, had ordered from them, C. O. D., a pair of spectacles which were worth $10, to be delivered to him by Wells Fargo & Co., and would represent to said Schneider that these spectacles were to be paid for upon delivery, and that his deceased father had become obligated to pay therefor the sum of $10 and would thus procure the said spectacles to be delivered to said Schneider, as a true consignment made by agreement with and to be sent to his said deceased father, and thus induce him to pay to said Wells Fargo & Co. the sum of $10, which said sum should be by said Wells Fargo & Co. delivered to defendants; that said representations were all false, and the said spectacles were worth not more than $1; that in furtherance of said scheme defendants placed and caused to be placed in the post office, to be sent and delivered, and caused to be delivered' according to the directions thereon, an envelope addressed to “The Universal…