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: 



"Carl A. Miles 

 In the Vale of the Shenandoah 



Grottoes, Virginia 

 Fong Wan Herb Co., 

 576 Tenth Street, 

 Oakland, Calif. 

 Gentlemen : 



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, 



(signed) C. A. MILES." 

 (The above letterhead was printed). 



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