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CHAPTER XI
ENTRAPMENT LETTERS
The public may be interested in reading a few specimens of the nu-
merous entrapment letters sent to Fong Wan by the Postal Inspector
under assumed names. These same letters were part of the evidence
offered by the prosecution in the trial against Fong Wan in the South-
ern Division of the United States District Court for the Northern Dis-
trict of California, March, 1932. The prosecution offered 16 different
sets of letters, among which the following were included:
From pages 27-41, transcript, Vol. I, March 3, 1932, dated Septem-
ber 5, 1929, reads as follows:
Fong Wan Herb Co.,
576 Tenth Street,
Oakland, Calif.
Gentlemen :
"Carl A. Miles
In the Vale of the Shenandoah
Grottoes, Virginia
I saw your advertisement about stomach ulcers, and I am troubled
with my stomach about an hour or so after I eat food, when I have aw-
ful pains in my stomach, so that I am not able to do anything. I have
been to the doctor and he says I have ulcer of the stomach and that the
ulcer is where the stomach empties into the intestines and that the food
cannot get out of the stomach because of the ulcer. He says the
ulcer has healed some and has formed scar tissue around the opening
and that the pain is due to the fact that the food can not get out of
the stomach into the intestines, and that there are probably other
ulcers down there.
According to Mr. Mitchell of El Cerrito you cured him of ulcers of
the stomach. Please have your doctors go over my case and let me
know if you can cure me.
Yours,
(The above letterhead was printed).
156
(signed)
C. A. MILES."