The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1879-03-16
THE DEVICES OF POLICY DEALERS.
A NEW KENTUCKY LOTTERY-FATE
OF THE LOUISIANA LOTTERY.
Remarkable Consistency OF Frederick
Luthy-H0w ALA was C0ntrived.
New York Tribune.I

| concerts nave been conducted III violation @
good morals and the laws of the State of New
| York. Within few days the Legislature o
Louisiana has repealed the Louisiana LOTTERY
Company's grant, which Is chiefly controlled
| by Chas. I. Howard and John A. Morris. Ii
| 1869 quarrel took place between Howard
Morris, Ben Wood, VIM. G. France Henry
Coulter and others, which resulted In a Law
| suit, during which many damaging facts were
brought to public notice.
Mr. Wood, in his af1idavis, testified that the
charter Of the Louisiana Lottery Company
was procured by fraud. madison Jeffers, al
ex-detective from Baltimore, and the conf.
Dental friend Of all the persons interested
testified that the Louisiana Lottery was the
property of a number of outside persons, and
that lis yearly profits were 500, 900 or more
These exposures attracted the attention OF
the best residents Of Louisiana, and for the
last three or four years they have made sew
erai attempts to procure the repeal Of this
lottery; but it is said that Morris and How
ara have always been able. until the present
session of the Legislature, to control the Sem
ste 1t appears that their powers have ceased
now, for the Legislature, by considerable
majority, repealed the grant recently, and
the residents celebrated The event by firing q
hundred guns.
What added to the unpopularity of Morris
and Howard, the real managers Of the COM
pany, was their ambition Mr. Howard pur-
chased pair Of fine horses, and was elected
the president of the Louisiana Jockey Club:
he also leased q theatre, and, being partly
successful in both enterprises, became can
dldate for Governor OF the State. His partner
vxtnE flIxNr .v,Ir
the CollectOrship Of the Port. It was an
nounced in one Of the New York journals q
few days ago, in letter from Washington.
that John A. Morris, of Louisiana, who Is said
to have furnished the money tor the purpose
of bribing the Returning Board. is a Candidate
for United States Marshal The ambition of
these two men has not prevented them from
searching Tor new market In which to carry
on their traffic. They have established an
agency In this city at No. 319 Broadway,
where ii. IL. Plum and Francis Moore Il Son
are engaged daily in selling their tickets, not
wlthstanding the fact that Plum and Moore
have been arrested several times for similar
otfenses. These men have recently allied
themselves to lottery company known as
the Kentucky Lottery Company the success
sors OF Murray, Miller & Co, Of Frankfort
KY, and ut. Louis, Mo. The new lottery is
advertised over the signature of Luthy Il
90, brokers, No. 232 Greenwich street and
No. "a Ann street
n LVpOlUOL VI Jub IFtUIHP, III search OF H.
formation, learned that Luthy 81 Co was
Frederick Luthy the man who once testified
before the assembly law committee on crime
AT meeting of this committee October IS,
1873, there being present 7. G. Campbell, Mr..
MCGOWAN, Mr. Deasar and Mr.. Hess Mr.
Luthy testified as follows:
II reside at No IA West One Hundred and
lWenty-fourth street, and have a place of
business at No 1921 Greenwich street. e
You are !, here for crime, Everybody knows,
even In this country, that we must have such |
.hlngs. as paWn-shops, rum-shops etc, but |
gambling is the worst thing on the face of
,he earth, and il you mean business Won |
ought TO break it up; and it isn't carried out I
lkn ~; the worst feature OF gambling is policy |
ME- McGoWan-You include policy and I
ottery?
Mr.. Luthy-Yes, sir; you want to know
What to get at to break up crime and where
he leading part Of it is; the first blow Won
AYE TO make is at thepress; stop them from
IRE drawn before or afterward; man wants
Q see the result OF the lotteries. The Legis-
AZURE, or whoever makes the law, should
Dake heavy penalty for advertising lot
cry schemes; it the law is a right down
through. 1t ought to bestopped. To make
ong story short, it makes the boys steal rev.
nue. stamps and go and sell them: and
women to take the bank book OF the men:
nd when they want to get into business.
v1heres the money? It takes the pennies off
ne dead mans eyes. | am not speaking
)r dollars and cents; I am giving #
? you as 1t ought to be, and you are men. that
men you go there to the Legislature =
lslst upon 1t that such law should be
aSsed, so SOHO That they can't get over it. {
nat is the 1lrst thing? Get the newspapers ;
stop advertising it. Let the law be passed :
las when they print a slip in the city Of New .
ork, as they do now, everything shall he !
ken away and sold, the same as II it under I
. government; seize the goods and sell
1d a man in New York with the determine
On that have for breaking up the business: Fl
IL see other people reaping the benefit of it u
10 coming here and representing that they n
9 doing this thing for the benefit of the peo- Z
T. come mere and give 1t to you solid. |
mt to break up that business" a.
Mf. Luthy - now actively engaged in the :"
slness which ne condemned so thoroughly h
lore the Assembly committee in 1875. His y
I'm Office IS at No. 232 Greenwich street. It no
a small store. divided so as to conceal the -
~ nature OF the business. In the front part M
the store are displayed variety of gold e.
q silver colns and bank bills of all denOmi- ~
uonS In the rear room are generally con- h.
gated score or more of clerks, transfers. H.
Ofers, negroes and tradesmen OF all classes. "
9 purchase policy slips and then retire A y
'orter called at the establishment a number 90 90
times In search Of Mr.. Luthy but the Sh
rks always said he was not in. When d,
.ed Tor information one of the clerks who 70
ne from an adjoining room, where he was "a
aged In clipping and punching the unsoId bn
ietS, said that it was genuine lottery and n NJ
run In fair manner. When asked who pc
managers We're he said that the lottery az
been ,4 run BY Murray. Miller & Co, and a.,
Mt Luthy was their representative now. e..
OF the tickets issued by the company Luz
seen. 1t bore photographic copy OF the
nature OF William Murray.
ne Missouri State Lottery, one of the
lbinations used by Mr.. Luty and his S
ndS, became the subject of a legal inves- ha-
-tlon, November II, 1876, in st. Louis. da,
J. Y. France, then, as now, one of the lot an
managers 81 this new combination. tes- mn
q that he, Charles Murray and Miller Tn
the managers Of that concern. He las
ed that one Of his partners, Miller, had gre
ed the names OF two or more dead com lin,
5loners to the grant in order to give it a hig
e OF life, and at the same time to make it eat
H. tie charged Miller with being com bee
drunkard, and said that Murray and her
er were 10 conspiracy to defraud or
OF his rights. In a statement of the
T accounts, he said, he had found a the
ge OF $1,000 for bribing living commits SO