The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1870-02-04

THE LOTTERY POLICY DEALERS.
The first act in the drama of the prosecution
of the lottery policy dealers of Philadelphia
closed yesterday by failure of the defend
anita to appear, whereupon their recogni-
zances we're forfeited. The names of the
parties accused and their sureties were as
follows
Alyah Clark, bail $500: j. Madison Miller, No. 1401
North Fifth street, surety.
William Parker bail si5OO; J. Madison Miller, No.
1401 North Fifth street, surety.
Peter Gallagher, bail $4,000; John q. Butler and
William ID. Kendrick, sureties. , ~.
Joseph Gallagher, bail $4,000; Henry Reinhard, NO.
116 South sixth street, and Joseph Shoemaker, NO.
1729 Green street, sureties.
John Manderneld, bail $500; John X. Manderheld,
No. 262 North Twenty-hrst street, surety.
Francis M Provost bail $500; Joseph Shoemaker,
No 1I22 Green street, surety.
Bernard Barton, bail 1880; Joseph Shoemaker,
No. 1873 Green street, surety.
1t is supposed, however, that the bail will
be renewed and the cases argued to-day.
The public will await the result with no little
interest. Despite stringent laws prohibiting
the plundering operations of these gentry
they seem to be practically beyond the reach
of Justice. Their dens are notoriously well
known to the police, and day after day they
continue to intensity the miseries of poverty
and to tempt their infatuated dupes to part
with the last remnants of their property. 1t
is their chosen mission to make gambling on
a small scale easy, and to graduate their
appeals to the pockets of the very poorest
of the victims of this vice. In numberless
cases children have been sent supperless to
bed, and families deprived of food, fuel, and
clothing, through their Vaccinations. From
the madness of the many which they con-
stantly engender, splendid fortunes for few
are created. Ben. Wood, the Democratic Sc
cession politician of New York. lives like
prince upon the spoils wrung from his lottery
and lottery-poicy interests, and he is but
type of the predatory whelps of lower de-
gree who for years have bid defiance to the
police and the courts of Philadelphia. "Plate
sin with gold, and the strong
lance of justice hurtless breaks" has been the
standing and heretofore the safe reliance of
these offenders. Confident in the protection
of powerful hackers who drive splendid
equipages, live upon the fat of the land, and
take special pains to subsidize unscrupulous,
criminal lawyers and influential politicians
they have continued their nefarious pursuit
as publicly as if it was legitimate calling.
The proceedings now in progress will help to
determine whether these dangerous and de-
moralizing knaves are to be forever safely
ensconced beyond the reach of law, and the
welfare of thousands of their unhappy vic
Tins is involved in this question.
District Attorney Gibbons has the sympa-
thies of every just and philanthropic citizen
in his effort to break up the organized band
of policy plunderers. We trust that he will
also direct his attention to the gamblers of
another grade whose operations were exposed
at length in our columns on Tuesday. If he
can succeed in ridding the community of the
curse of faro banks as we'll as policy shops,
he will render lasting and inestimable SER
vice, and not only rescue thousands from
ruin, but vindicate at last the majesty of laws
that have too long been openly violated.