The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1866-12-17

A Man Loses Thirty Thousand Dollars
sey and Hon. Ben. Wood, with others,
: Named In the Order of Arrest, Etc.
SUPERIOR CoURT-CHAMBERs-Be Before Judge
Monell.-An order has been Issued by Justice
Mcneil on the application OF Charles S Spencer, OF
counsel, for the arrest Of John Morrissey John A.
MosIS Sin Wo Erahce UnaFes cnb RNnc6 o.
DAVID j.. Reed, Benjamin Wood, Jacob blauvet,
John McGee; Antonio Nathan, William Ward, WI;
liam Craft, E. W. Hulse, and Oscar Clark, all of
whom the Sheriff is directed 10 hold to bail IN the
The order OF arrest was granted on the affidavit of
Nelson b. Odell, cooper IN West Nineteenth
street, Tenth avenue, who deposes that during
the years last past he has lost The of $35 900
at differ lottery and policy shops kept and main.
tanned by the above defendants, of VIII ch sum
$1,000 was lost tine shop Kept 6y j. SaSo6 @ Bauye
by John McGee at No. 1873 Seventh avenue $4,000
at the shop of A. b. Nicholson Nos. SO Vesey street
and DeY street; $1,000 at the shop OF Nathan,
No. 176 Broadway; $1,000 at the shop OF VIM Craft,
No. 81 Whitehall sueet; $1,000 at the shop of E. w.
Fulton street; and he charges that the above de.
fendants were interested In the aforesaid winnings
IRON , ne iuGther dePoses that & the sum, 50
ants, known as "ottery policy Slips purporting to be
DECIDED by the S CRAVINGS S OF the kentucky State
tucky," which he alleges are "owned, managed,
controlled manipulated, and conducted by the first
ten defendants" above named T0at "deO0nentIs
informed, and believes, and expects to be able to
prove that said drawings of said Kentucky lotteries,
% for the decision Of the then numbers of SAID slips So SV
him purchased have been falsely and frauduIently
drawn during the entire period in Ia ThiSh S said Se
dNponente money, or when regularly drawn, have
been ia sely and traudu emily suppressed and other
mum ers, hich had not been drawn falsely Inserted
IN q eir place, with the view of cheating and de-
frau hng this deponent and other persons who made
said' |"
Deponent then describes in his affidavit some of
the "tricks and devices" resorted TO by defendants
TO effect these false and fraudulent drawings, such
as the employment OF one Lewis Davis TO supeIin-
tena Ine M craving IN hentucky. a9a 70 teegraph IN
with the numbers on the p0 Icy slips sold by them
and if the drawing were found to infc losses on
said owners and managers, they Wi1ully, detbe-
rately, wlckedly, falsely, and fraudently changed
and altered the said numbers drawn in Kentucky,
and replaced them by other numbers which were in
agreement with the interests of such owners and
managers "
Another "trick and device" he deposes was to
exclude from tine observation of the drawing all
persons not In the interest OF the said owners and
managers, ana 70 stock" the rooms where said "a
their own; that one of the parties thus employed to
prevent the intrusion OF the public upon the false
drawings was John X, Briggs, who on one occa-
sion, acting under orders of the owners and mana
gers OF the drawing, suspended drawing for the
avowed reason that said drawing should not be wit.
messed by any person who was not connected with
or IN the interest of said owners and managers.
Appended to the affidavit of Nelson b. Odel Is an
affidavit OF one Nelson Ferris, who deposes that
after having sustained heavy losses in the pure hasnR
by one Of the q tSe Sa one
with key TO cipher used by them in transmitting
structed to 20 to Albany with the unSerstapdnG tam
that he should be furnished IN advance of the draw
ing with the numbers which were to appear as hav.
ing been legitmately drawn that he went to Albany
according 10 Instructions and while there received
in advance of the time advertised 1or the drawing
the numbers In cipher, that wer9 to appear as hav
Ing been drawn, and that with this information ht
purchased policy slips of John Hall, No. Beaver
street, and one Rosecrans, No. 16 Exchange Place
Albany; that the three numbers purchased BY hlu
as aforesaid app cared, duly certified by the C0mmis
EOners, as having been drawn, and that he wa
paid by Rosecrans the sum of @100, that being th'
amount OF the risk taken by him, he (Rosecrans sup
arg haa not been decided NJ y. Sunday Herald