Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1858-06-10

Level" Their plan of operations was 70 sei'1
, flaming circular and ten tickets to each per-
son they solicited to undertake the sale thereof
The agent was to sell nine of the tickets Keep
inc the other as his commission, and remit the
money to Plummer & Co. Inc Grand LeVee
r, which the dollar gave admission, was TO be
the occasion of the distribution OF siOO'OOo IN
cash prizes, varying in amount from sSOO 10
$40 900. OF course there was no l'eVee OF
Drawing, the whole affair being an unmItigA'ed
swindle.
The Grand Levees purpOrted to be given at
the Buckingham House, aud William shute' the
I.,dlord. has made fortune out of the swind-
linz business. On one occasion crowd at
tended to be present at the drawing, and Shute
no, only pretended utter ignorance Ofthe whole
Levee but had the satisfaction Of charging for
feeding and lodging the victims The depot
Post Office of the swindlers is at Haverhill'
Mass only few miles distant from Plaistow.
An account Of Sergeant Berney's operations
says:
Tie MANAGERS of the swindle came every day
from that town, obtained their letters and imme-
diately departed. In this Office were letters for
the following named bogus firms: Joel Miller q
Son. los letters; Harrison, Rogers d Co, CO.
Kent, Marshall, Harmon d Co, 40; & X SPai-
ding, Moulton & Co, 29; G. K. Bowen d Breth-
ers. "a: A. L. Howe So, Wilson Co., IS; Har-
grove, Pearson d Co, As; B. F. Harper q Broth
ers, 81; in all, 45I. These had accumulated IN
a single dav. The Post Master said that some
times d sing gle firm would get as many as 600 IN
one day
So great was the rush, that the uiice of Post
Master at Atkinson Depot, which had hitherto
been worth but about $50 per annum, has the
last wear yielded the incumbent more than 81
900.
At Salem, n h, the establishment of Nor
gan, wilber d Co., was discovered; the parties
had got wind of Bemeys intended visit, and
fed they had not called for their letters for over
two weeks, which numbered over 5000
Newton, n. H, was the next town they
reached Here was found The lottery concern
of Foster. French d Co Shute, the proprietor
OF the Rockingham House, at Plaistow, was dls-
covered to be also the owner Of this establish
ment; the papers and letters were all ordered to
be sent to the dead letter Office, alter which they
proceeded to Exeter. A firm by the name oi
T. 5 ellison & Co. was found to have an I'M
IlenSe NUMBER OF lGlLGTe bANASf
proved to be lottery schemes. The prOprietors
name is Bradley, who is said to be well known
10 the police in New York. He was arrested
at Lawrence, Mass for swindling, and Is now
in the House of Correction, serving out his
time; his letters were also taken possession OF
Nashua, n H, also Manchester, Portsmouth,
and several other little villages, were VISITED
where were located lottery concerns, but they
had all been broken up and the parties left town
Berney then returned to Boston, where he broke
up the following gift establishments; c. ID. Par
ker Il Co, G. W Moore & Co., W. Ayre Co
and Carter d Co
Mayor Tieman and his efficient Sergeant OF
Police have succeeded in breaking up Seven
teen Bogus Gift Enterprises in New England
The extent to which people are willing to be
gulled by biting at naked Lottery hooks Is
seen in the fact that it is estimated by the au-
thorities that ssOOO,OOO of worthless tickets
are now out, the greater part of which have
been paid for at the rate of sl,0O each Tle
four Boston firms had sent out sixty mail bags
of circulars within a month, and 1t has been the
habit of the New Hampshire bogus concerns to
send out 10000 circulars each 8 month, con-
tanning schemes for the next month
The Detroit Advertiser says there are num-
Der of other concerns of the same sort located
in Michigan and other Western States, and eX-
poses one at Ypsilanti styled the Great
Western Enterprise, Tickets Sl,OO." The
Advertiser presumes that the company receiving
letters and remittanccs at Ypsilanti, live in De-
troit, Ann Arbor, or some adjacent town; and
as the Postmaster General has authorized Post
masters to send all letters of this kind to the
Dead Letter Office, such POstmasteIs as are
not interested IA the Lottery business will be
likely to prove efficient aids in exposing and
breaking up the bogus establishments. The
Postmas;ers of New York, Boston, DC, have
observed the instructions to the great advantage
of the swindled.
After the above was put in type we clipped
the following paragraph from yesterdays Her
aid:
BOGUS LOTTERIES Es-The Post Master Cen
eral has at the request Of our Mayor given
directions to the Post Master of this city, to
detain all letters sent to :he assumed and icti-
tiOus address Of the Bogus Lottery Dealers in
this CITY, and 10 transmit all sucn letters 70 tne
| Dead Letter Office. If the Post Master Obeys
his instructions, the business of Murray & Co,
Astor L Co Worth & Co, Calvert & Co, and
MOrriss d Co. SO long. and so extensively car
NED on in this city, will be broken up. Simi-
lar directions have been given to the Post Mas
ter Of the city of New York, and he has acted
accordingly.
We were gratifed to note that Mayor STARK
WEATHER is taking effective steps to break up
the swndIing lottery establishments in this
city, but were as much surprised as We presume
the public and Postmaster General will be, TO
learn from good authority last evening that the
Cleveland Postmaster disregards the directions
and continues to deliver the Lottery letters as
usual, under the plea that the instructions are
not sufficiently definite
Mormon News--Pence af Salt Lske-
We learn by a despatch from St. Louis of the
sgh to the Cincinnati and Pittsburgh press the
evening of the sth, but not to the Cleveland