New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1880-11-30
LOCAL MISCELLANY.
THE WAR AGAINST THE LOTTERIES.

fHE POLICE NOT sCoURsGkD-PRKsiD NrFRENCh
DEIkRMISED To CLOSE EVERY POLICY sh"r-
WHAT sUPj RINIENDENT wALLlNG SAYS.
The police authorities have not relaxed Their
efforts in closing the policy shops. Obcers IN Gnu
ycns' dress have been stationed IN some places to
arrest the pinprietors as soon as they violate the
law. The policy men. however 0elN lle law as
npenly and boldly as ever. They seem to look upon
the proceedings OF the police as periodical disturb
ance which will cease in a few weeks. few pro
prietors sell them slips very cautiously and only
admit their well known customers. liz one place IN
Third.st.. where the business was carried on rs
usual. yesterday this sign was displayed: This
place removed 10 FTst-St.. HobOken; be sure and
take the Christopher Street Ferry" The front
door was closed. aud a side one vas open ioI the
regular players.
President French was asked yesterday if he was
discourage in his attempt to close these places
No. sir he replied I'VE are l.Ot DISCOURAGED bnt
more determined than ever. We have begun the
work of closing them. and will keep at II until
every proprietor shuts mp ms ehop. w" VIII
continne To make arrcots all the time If
opens his place after he has been arrested, we viii
arrest him right over AGAIN, and | guess he VIII
get tired before we do. ! am vcrv much surprised
at the way some of the prisoners were treated last
week, but if we do not receive tho proper protection
in one Court we will in another We know OF
way in which all the shops can be closed, ana we
will soon be able 10 shut up every one OF them.
Superintendent Walling said that arrests were
being made rs fast evidence enough to warrant
them was accumulated. " II the justices VIII only
remember" h. said, " that the whole business of
selling lottery tickets or keeping office Tor their
sale is felony ana that ali these little teciDica'
do not diyest the offence Of its criminal character
we shall get along well enough Let them Temom
Der that however the money IS paid, OF Whoever
writes the slips long as II Is paid and the slips
are gwen, and the wages OF bets. or insurance, OF
whatever YOU choose 10 call lit Is all the same
are recorded. a felony is committed and the person
committing il is liable to punishment; The justices
seem 10 be- losing sight altogether OF that part OF Ii.
In the course OF the day the Superintendent called
the four Inspectors into his Office and held con-
sutatiOn with them. Mr. WalIue denied that the
lottery question had been under discussion.
4l. E.NDp. Il hnA lgnn pPaf
meeting for consultation II was said that the
lottery business under discussion.
Detectives Handy and Fogarty. of the Fifth
Precinct, arTaigned William Wylic, age forty-threc.
before Justice Duffy yesterday, al the Iombs Police
Court on the complaint OF Lucus Carr. Il COlorcl
Chambers St, who charges Wyhe with having
defrauded him of 20 cents Saturday night. II Is
claimed by Carr that he made a " hit Saturday
night, and won $40 at a policy shop NJ No. los
West Broadway, by means of the envelope game,
and that the dealer refused to pay h caused his
arrest for violating the gan bling laws. On being
cToss-examincd by counsel for the defence Carr
ACKNOWLEDGED that he had previously won , ~ at
the same place and that if he had been paid the
500 which he claimed there would have been
no prosecution. Wylie was held for trial III
default of 5000 bail.
John Brown. OF No Attorneyst.; Richard Austin,
OF No POS DvisiOn-st.; and Peter Miller of No IS
Grand-st.. were aTragncd before Justice kllb!eth
on a charge OF violating the Lottery law They
were all discharged, there was not sufficient
evidence TO NIT them for trial.
William Miller, age lightweight, living ~ Lex
ington-aVe., between Ihlrty-hTst and Thirty
second-sts was committed FOR trial yesterday in I
the Y0rkvic Police Court for selling policy slips |
at No liza SecOnd-aNc.