Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1861-01-25
Lottery swindles.

A CORRESPONDENT gives us below one of the
many Lottery Circulars with which our mails are
rowded The matter has become SO common
lately that we should deem the subject worthy
of little notice. were it not that we. happen to
know some among our own citizens SO exceeding
" verlant as to trust in these bogus Lotteries.
If lotteries were honestly conductedit would be
a losing speculation to buy tickets suppose
man should buy all the tickets and draw all
the prizes in an honestly conducted lottery ne
would of course be the loser of all the profits OF
the manager and the expenses of the concern. So
II he buys single ticket the chances are that he
loses. t.rl f-
But when in addition to the precariousness OF
the investment we take into account the noto-
rious character of Wood, Eddy, g. Co., the chance
of loss becomes certainty of being swinded.
This Wood is the same Ben Wood who has been
80 notorious in New York for his extensive swind-
ling operations.ysl gHt-.lI 3f d a
All the Lottery tickets. that are sent into the
country, by such means US these letters are fraud
ulent, Some of them may be genuine tickets OF
some swindling concern, but most of these are
forgeries They sometimes send trihing prizes as
q bait, but NEVER send large one. This opera
ton of our correspondent letter bears marks OF
fraud In its face. The offer is to send ffty-two
sixteenths of q ticket for $l0; when according to
their scheme, each whole ticket is worth the same
$40. They cannot do this honestly, They vir-
tually say they do this to cheat somebody else.
Now the matter stands just here: you get such
letter from party you don't know, he asks you
I, c,1n lo ba
your neighbor to buy tickets, that is, so he can
cheat your neighbor You may be sure that when
he gets your $40 he must send $1,000 or 500 back
for the sake of cheating your neighbor out of
another $40. You are the man he expects to
cheat. This matter we deem perfectly simple,
but still, as there are some in every town in this
county, so foolish as to send their money to such
concerns, we have considered it worthy of notice:
Mr.. EDIroR:-I have just received very fiat
tcring communication, which regret exceedingly
to say am not, able to comply with. Not having
the ten dollars mentioned in the letter, and having
no other way Of giving Messrs. Hammet, & Co..
the publicity in this section they desire, have
concluded to send the letter to you republication
wishing, however that all your readers are under
the same obligations that am to keep this letter
strictly CONFIDENTIAL until get the money.
When get the money mentioned in the letter,
will inform your readers:
DEAR SIR Having by accident learned your
address we take the liberty of dropping few
lines to you. We have noticed that in your State
our business, from some cause or other, has fallen
Oft within the past year. and having determined
to lncrease our trade wherever we find it dropping
by sending a handsome prize, AS AN INDUCEMENT,
to some one who will, by showing the money,
influence his acquaintance in our favor, we offer
the chance to you. We shall, of course, expect
you to make it known among your friends and
neighbors that Hammett d Co. were the lucky
Prize Sellers who sold you the prize, or we shall
reap no profit from this arrangement. If you
will do that, please send without delay for Ger
ticate of 26 Sixteenths of tickets in the Delaware
State Lottery, Glass la, to be drawn under the
popular arrangement of Messrs, Wood Eddy g.
Co., on the I'D of February, 1861, To show our
good faith in this matter, we promise that if the
Certificate we send you does not draw at least
$4,000, we will give you another Certificate in one
of our Extra Lotteries FOR NOTHING. Let us know
how you wish the money sent to you and send us
$40 in your letter to pay the Managers for the
Certificate.
Please keep this strictly confidential until we
send you the money, and use the enclosed en-
velope to put your letter in We send Prizes to
different persons every month in this way and
hnd that the plan increases our business very
largely. Please send Immediately, and let us
know in Your letter your nearest Bank. r,.F
Very Respectfully, HAMMETT g. Co.
january IA, 1861. "t jise lII