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 BRAM* V. OltlTHD STaTBS. ''S&'J �of the United States, at Plattsburgh aforeeai^, said special notice and letter, he, the said Anselm K Brand", thein and there intending to cause said special notice to be published in said Malone Palladium, and ciroulated through the mails of tha United States by means of the post-ofSce establishment of the United States, which said special notice was then and there a scheme and artifice to defraud divers and sundry persons, to the jurors aforesaid unknown; and which said special notice ■was, at Malone aforesaid; by the said Anselm P. Brand, there- after, to-wit, on the fifteenth day of August, A. D. 1878, know- ingly, wrongfuUy, and unlawfuUy caused to be deposited in the post-office of thô United States, to-wit, in the post-office at Malone aforesaid, he, the said Anselm P. Brand, then and there intending thereby to open communication, by means; ôf the post-office establishment of the United States, .with divers persons to the jnrors aforesaid unknown, he, the said Anselm P. Brand, then and there, by such means, knowingly, wrongfulJy, «nd unlawfully contriving and intending to defrand said per- sons, contrary,". etc. .;;:!■ The second count allegea that'Brànd, "on the fifteenth dày of Augustj A. D. 1878, at Màlona, in the county of Franklin, juid state ofNew York, and northem district of New York, and within the jurisdiction of. this court, knowingly, wrong- fully, and unlawfully did canaeto be deposited ih the post- office of the United StateSj to-wit, in" the post-office ai Malone, aforesaid, a certain 'special notice' in: the words and figures foUowing, to-wit, [as in the first coûnt,] iwMfih eaid special notice was then and there, by the said Anselin P. Brand, caused to be signed at the end thereof aB fol- lows, 'A. B. Fritz & Co.,' and which said special notice waa then and there, by the said Anselm P. Brand, caused to be addressed to divers persons, to the jurors aforesaid unknown, intending thereby to open communication with said persons, and intending thereby to incite said persons to open com- munication with him, the said Anselm P. Brand, he, the said Anselm P. Brand, then and there, by such means, knowingly, wrongfuUy, and unlawfully contriving and intending to defraud said persons, contrary," etc. ����