New-York tribune., 1876-02-15
NETWORK DAILY TRIBUNE, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY Is, 1870

tt s Ar. hecone Luoru ss a Sixth Ward repeater.
His exploits in tns ue atraoted the attention OF John
Morrissey who placed him In the frm OF simmons CO.
% bi, iuterests Cook very intimate
terms wlth Police superintendent Kels0 VISITED MIN
daily at Police Headquarters and often seeO crvnx
o,, with him I'm the aftern Jon Andrew Sheehau was
for,nerIy a prze-ng ghtcr and hired by Tweed al
Albany as sort OF body guard during the contest Dc
tween Tammany and the Young Democracy A'er .p'
excitement nad subsidized Tweoi, TO reward his faithiu
servant placed him as his representative IN the nrn Vi
Simmons Il Co. -
The Alabama and Kentucky Lotteries were two OF the
princioaI policy games by which the Simmons firm de
,raied the public Tho Alabama Lottery was chartered
by the State OF Alabama May 1870, through tho inn
auce of H. f. simmons. On the day OF tho drawing al
Mobile, Ala, the agent OF Simmons & Co. in that city
telegraphed the numbers As drawn to j. H. Adams
the manager Of the rm at No 81 ldberty-st In tins cy
Here the numbers wero compared with the book OF sales
and II tickets bearing numbers really drawn had De'h
Sold the numbers changed to make the winner
loser 10 the amount invested for tickets The follow
ing is An example Which will show how the fraud was
pracced The number Of the drawing for June 80 az
printed in Mobile, 1,4s4 and the numbers drawn
and certified correct by Commissioners j. H. Cuthoer'
as follows:
40 56. Al. 36, IL. 8. so. 7S 1, AZ, A.
These were telegraphed to Simmons & Co, who, com
pairing them with list Of numbers sold by theh io"
several that list, and combined III such way '" ~.
buyers had really Consequently they chuiscu INV
order of the numbers and withdrew some OF 'eh put
ting others IN their places, and published the changeu
list IA the numbers drawn at Mobile, thus cheating the
pnrrhasers out ~ the they had Won For the si
given above they published tho following false ist;
50 AZ % 90, 76 30 -. 7s, AZ. &c. 10, %. 31 IS.
or course no prizes paid in New-York ana prooa
bly, none in Mobile. This fraud Of changing numbers :"
a. to include only unsold tickets, was repeated In every
city where thero was agency. Tickets In the Ken
tf,,..s lnan bIt
used principally policy game 1t has been In e1iS
once nearly twenty years, and will expire TINS year
The alliance with the Tammany Ring and perfect I'M
derst1nding with the police gave tho Simmons irn con
troll other policy dealers in the city, ana VicuwS
could not obtain any redress. W. L. simmons gave
notice 10 a dealer that unless lac complied with ceita
orders. which had been issued by the firm he
would be arrested and imprisoned. The dealer
went to the Police Superintendent, and volunteered
10 give such Information would enable MN
to seize every policy shop IN the city lncuhihg
the principal Office OF the simmons firm on the BoWery
and the two branch Offices at No. 10 Annst' ana NO o'
Ilberty-.t bus no notice was taken Of the offer In
Juy 1871 the managers Of the company held meeung
at which they discovered that the policy dealers were
making more monoy than the firm, and therefore or
ercd them TO pay their Office rent, whieb hihero
I'd been paid by the Company This large number OF
refused to do and the managers resolved to iorc"
tho refractory into sulecton Through their Tam
dered make general raid upon all the policy shops IN
the city. Trinity Chapel" aud its branch Offices on
Ann and Lbertysts, were not moesei but allowed 70
continue their nefarous practices few fayorites o the
~imron, firm we're informed IN time 10 close their o'ces
bat the men who had defed the managers were arrested
superintendent Kelso now highly praised Tor Ms
energetic" measures root ont this evil but as the
policy offices one after another opened again. the
dealers having probably made terms with the Simmons
firm the truth gradually came to light The simmons
firm finally became involved In difficulty Adam
Roed.rer German. pay ed policy and lost $4,000 III
a play" in the Alabama Lottery the New-fofk mum
bcrs given as the Mobile drawing gave Kocdiger no !
przo tclegraphcd to Mobile and discovered that he
mad won $1,000. He claimed the money, and the |
Mr.,rs Simmons refused to pay 1t. He therefore OBJ
tained warrants for their arrest. and raid WAS made
upon their headqu by the Y0rkye Court ohoers