New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1882-09-10
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The Hon. John McKeon, District-Attor-
ney, returned from Saratoga recently
more than ever determined, it is said, to
redeem his promise of breaking up gam
bling in this city, and particularly the
offensive and demOralizing form Of policy
and lottery by which the poor are chiefly
swindled. And he proposes to dc this even
if il increases the antagOniSm between him
self and his assistant, Mr.. Allen, whom lie has
chiefly depended upon to carry ont his plans
against the gamblers, and the police ar
thorites. If this report be true, aid this
antagonism is an actual TACT as Mr..
McKeon supposes. then we congratulate Mr..
Allen and Mr.. McKeOn, and especially the
rl6uc. A good deal of brisk asperty, not to say
animositv between these two departments Just
now would DO vast amount of public good.
1t month since the Distrct-AttOrney at one
blow, without the assistance or knowledge of
the police, broke up the Kentucky Lottery
Company's Offices in this city. But in that
month the dealers whom that company supplied
have again resumed their business without
the slightest obstruction from the police. As
matter of fact it is conducted to-day as for
merly, and the only thing which the police
| have accomplished is to "raid," Intellectually
| however, an Office which had been pointed out to
| them in terms too plain to be mistaken. Their
| evidence was incomplete, and OF the several
| persons arrested only one was held in light
| bail, another was committed for contempt of
court, and the rest were released. In the
meantime the several hundred dealers con-
tinue in business as we have before
described 1t is said by those who should
| fbn Ln,-
| knowlcd.e of this business and refuse
to take serious steps to suppress it. That is
a proposition the Commissioners will deny and
they may do so truthfully, for aught We know ;
but they will be met with the question, Why
do they not know9" TAe District Attorney
knows, and for each of the private detectives
which he employs the Police Commissioners
have fifty officers at their command with whom
to find out facts and collect proof.
The DistrictAttorney, for instance, knows
that tie 600 or 700 policy shops in this city
are owned by about forty men that they OBJ
tanned their figures on which to base their sale
of "Slips" or tickets from the headquarters in
the BoweIy which WAS seized a month ago and
that after the lapse Of few days they resumed
selling on figures received from Jersey City
and supplied by a man named Edwin II. Dick
inson OF the firm Of Simmons So Dickinson,
owners of the Kentucky Lottery. The police
ought to have had that information long ago.
The DstGct-Attorney has it. We give it pub
Lefty again to see if they will act Oh the hint The
District Attorney also knows this: The Louis
lana State Lottery Company isl fraudulent con-
Germ, without charter, its original grant having
been repealed in 1879, and it is without power to
sell, tickets even in Louisiana BY the pur-
chased Interpolation of "a clause (aIticle 1G7)
in the Constitution of Louisiana adopted July
%, 1879 and an amicable suit instituted in
Washington on its behalf for fraudulent
purposes, it secured sufficient recognition TO
warrant the Post Office authorities at Wash
ingtOn in emitting it from the official list of
frauds" which arc denied the privilege of
the United States mails; and thus restored
it has been able to do business by the aid OF
United States officials in States where its
tickets cannot be openly sold, rs in NewYork
and Louisiana. Repeated prosecutions and
convictions had driven this company from
Louisiana to NewYOIk, from New ork to
Washington, and finally from Washington.
Arrangements were made, as before an
nOunced, to reestablish the swindle in this city
at No. 500 Broadway, with George UDpington
IA agent in place of the repeatedly convicted
NJ. A. Dauphin; and the District Attorney
knows that Uppington has openly boosted
that police protection had been promised him
by Police Commissioner and that he cared
nothing for the opposition OF old McKeon
and his llind assistant Allen" The business
was thus reopened several days ago, and the
police have disturbed IL only by the Intellectual
raid which held nobody Of Importance, and
did not even capture the chief offender, the new
agent. Naturally failures of raids by the