The Sun.
London, England, 1864-07-06 00:00:00

THE FOREIGN LOTTERY SCILEHERS.—APPLICATION
TO THE MAGISTRATE —CAUTION TO TILE PUBLIC.—MT
Makins, barrister, waited upon Mr Tyrwhitt this morning
to ask his advice under the following circumstances :
Mr Makins said that on the 30th of May last the widow
of a lieutenant-colenel expired at her residence in Glfiuces-
tet-terrac,, Hyde-park, and the announcement of her death

appeared in a newspaper. A few days after a letter was

received from Frankfort addressed to the deceased lady, and
was opened by her daughter. The letter was as follows .
'• conforthity with your order we beg leave
to hand you six shares in the New Austrian Loan, the
drawing of which takes place on the 10th September. As
you perceive by the enclosed prospectus the New Loan
off,rs more advantage than any other hitherto. Please remit
the amount of £5 in a Bank note or Post•osice order, pay-
able to J D-Wroff, London, but sent direct to us at Frank-
fort on-the-Maine. You may rest assured that every atten-
tion will be pat.: to your interests as if you were present at
the drawing, and an official list will be provided. Tkanking
you for your kind order and wishing you every success.—
We remain yours respeetiully, "J, DALTROFF."
" Frankfort-on-toe-Maine, June."

Enclosed in the letter we;e six shares which, with the

letter, were handed to him as a friend of the family by the
daughter of the deceased, He then want to the address or

the London agent, No. 12, Langbam-street, Portland-place,
and asked for Mr Daltroff, but saw a foreigner who said Mr
Dialtroff was not there. He then asked the foreigner whether
he knew anything about the shares, and he said he did not,
but asked' his name and address and said he would com-
municate with the firm at Frankfort. A fortnight after he
(Mr liakins) received the following letter from Frankfort:—
" Frankfort-on-the-Maine, June 30,
" Sir,—l have heard through Mr Ch. Hahen, of London,
that you called on me to inquire by wha, means we receives
an °met for shares from Mrs M. Our traveller, Mr H.
M.organ, called on Mrs M. at the latter eno of March, and
from her received the order for those six shares in the New
Austrian Loan, which we sent on the 10th inst. Now we
regret to hear that Mrs M. is dead, and we leave entirely to
you to keep the shares or not, but in the latter case, beg
you to return them as soon as passible.—We remain, Ece.
" G. DALTItOFF."
He (Mr Makins) wished to state that at the very time. it

was stated the traveller called on the deceased lady she was
seen by no other person than her doctor, having been bed •
ridden for some time, and that she was then in a dying
state Another remarkable feature was, that although it
was pretended the order for the shares was given in March,
it was not executed till after the death of the lady was an•
uouliet d in the paper.

Mr Tyrwhitt—Then, no five pounds were got out of any
one?

Mr Makins said that no money was obtained, and the
shares were still in his po.seession. He wished to know
what he had better do with them. He thought if publicity
were given to the matter, it would act us a warning to others.
The parties seemed to have chosen a widow lady, thinking
hey would succeed better.

Mr Tyrwhitt hoped publicity would be given to Mr
Makins's statement. The press was never more useful
than when exposing cases of the kind, The press could
always show such persons up ad vantageou.ly to the public.
It was well known that at Frankfort there was a regular
mint for such things and also for supplying countermit
money. He believed the Post-office authorities had stopped
the annoyance to some extent. He would advise Mr Makins
to retain possession of all the papers he had received in case
something might turn up.