New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-02-16
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
1orrYRY AGENTS. DEVICES.


,,,o,yv,Ks ypnM pnIADElPHIA ANswKRED-IRfSS
Est AsfScrs OF TBx LOTTERY BUSINESS
A letter was received at THE TRIBUNE
smce lest week frJm firm IN Philadelphia requesting
tns, reporter s,rould DC sent TO examine tee ousno
transactions of 81 H. Adams of No 100 broadway
Eeosa No ~" IT stated that between II M ana p
m every day package weighing ron one !" owo
pcands Wa Jeff express office 10 ths' Ciy' 0"'
ssae was printed the words;
-.,. Expsyss CoMrANY's OFFICE, pRrLhpElpmh;,
eoy certify hat this P9ekage, S %ss o GSRSsep
NE the - Jay Vi FSot '~'!' is ,nS ~ .rriyes -
NR-rs n,clage mus, not be delivered to any ono
.,teI nenc deposited IN express office the person
s.sy,ns "A moi esceptedl until 1t arrives at s destns
uoo Tie express s.d asSet wiz ~ P' P'i''O'"
~ j II IDAYs, 100 Broadway N. y Room "a
No No Broadway is 40 the corner of bberty-st but
vs.. the reporter knocked az the door OF Room No n
sseye was no answer He vas told. however that Mr.
Adams had no, been there for month, and that for
week or two boy had come for his letters and taken
Sem away. The boy, t was said worked TWO hours 10
the PostOlce every day. The reporter, taking al
vantage OF this clue which was given hun 10y woman
tho lanitors ROOM questioned one OF the detectives az
the PoetO0ce ana asoertained that no boy worked
there two heurs gay The courier IN whose route
No $50 Broadway SAID that all the letters which were ad
dressed Adams left for him in care OF j. G Bald
xiD Co OF No ~ Cortandtst lie had left there,
however, for the pastweek.
j H. BALDWIN ~ 20. are printers o"1 4iLnGrarhers
Evasve answers were give to the reporter questions
n, tins place although Mr. Baldwin expressed Wiling
ness 10 soc act FOR him. 1t was subsequently
sfoertaned that Adams was in Jersey CITY, ana ths1
MI Baldwin does his printing receives his letters ana
answers estlons regarding. The business Is Geheraly
very dull at present. The managers Of The KENTUCKY
Lottery have a printing establishment at Wilmington
Dol where an the tick u and circulars OF these lotteries
are printed.
They had an agent IN this city named j. H. hdams'
who Is the person above referred 10, whose business
70 receive s packages OF tickets that have Dech ca
,,led by the various agents throughout the Uniteu
etes the packages generally passing through the Al
ans Express Office tins city. Mr.. Adams has no con
trol whatever over these tickets. He receives them
from the agents and sends them on 10 the prn
eipa Office IN Wilmington, Del MI Adams has also the
control of the drawing after 1t has taken place IN the
State Of Kentucky. The official numbers are sent
OIL from Kentucky 10 him by telegraph in cypher'
snd he writes them out and they taken TO Bsldwns
tao whore they printed and then they are as
returned 10 MI Adams who sends them TO the agents
Er Adsms's Office is now 10 Jersey CITY Inc e1pah"
tcu OF the printed circular in the packages Is this For
suoat number Of years the managers OF the lottery
have been constantly swindlCd by their Owniagents,
who open the packages, retain tho tickets after the
drawing extract therefrom the prises aud keep tho
blanks Hence TINS circular was placed IN the
PACKAGE 90 that an agent, aSi RasS 3n no
Obtain possession OF It again, and TINS prevented the
IN Philadelphia, by Z. J.. Simmons u Co., or Burr,
& Co.. in thus city, owing 10 the action or the
Police Commissioners some time ago. The only men
now the business In tins CITY Luthey Martin and
Robinson. Baldwin is simply printer ana Is not Maple
punishment for printing the results OF lotteries TINS
question having been decided by the courts II several
tDstauCCe,
some time ago Simmons Co.. who were IN the busi-
sold out 90 James smith OF Cincinnati and Joseph
Burr Of NeW-YOrk and the latter after ar
rested tried aud aed by the Court OF General Sessions
3bo action Of the police about this time caused the
"dealers" 70 advertise In papers that would do such
work but the laws Of the State forbid such adver
Lsenents the following persons were arrested ChaIts
A Waldron Of No. Murray-st. Albert Hay OF NO. 95
wsll-st, Juan y. Martinez Of No. 10 Waist William NJ
Retmerekrch Of No 80 WaI-st., George W. HOzhausen
OF No $50 Bowery, Patrick G. Devlin OF No ~ Liberty
ct and Theodore ZschOCh Of No. ll6 Nassau-st
The lottery If distinct from the policy business. The
Of gambling in such tickets Is immense and from
sic cOOred citizens and the Fourth Ward residents TO
Tie millionaire aud banker all are interested. In thus
ty there at least co policy shops, 600 lottery deal
and about 100 gambling saloons, and the money
all these places In nearly S20NO days the
larger portion being clear profit, gained by sWin'
dlng" The largest dealers" in TINS city cOn-
tIolled by "Luthey & Co.." "Gerkrn& Co... OF Jones
Co mos 232 and 23lb GreenWlChtt, the agents for
the North Carolina Lottery.