Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-10-21
m. HALE ON TRIAL.
Alleged Violates Of me Lottery lava.
TESTIMONY IN THE PoIaCE COURT TODAY
THE TICKET AND THE CIRCULAR-"fIvE
THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE DOLLAR"

TESTIMONY IN THE PoIICE COURT TODAY
THE TICKET AND THE CIRCULAR-"fIvE
THOUSAND DOLLARS FOR ONE DOLLAR"
The case of DR.. William II. Hale. editor Of
Heasth and HOWE, charged by Detective Block
with violating the lottery laws, was called for
trial in the Police Court to-day. Assistant Dis
trict Attorney Thomas appeared for the prose
ant Dr. Hale is charged, on an Information
containing ten counts, with selling and trans
ferring 20 one John H. jackson a certain ticket,
porting and Intended to guarantee TO the holder
tnereof chance Of drawing and obtaining
Prize prize; ana share OF . ana an sn,,I In
commonly known as the grand gin distribaiion
by the Washington Trurener. which ticket con-
sSe 81 sns with
Premium Ticket. Traveller.
This ticket entities the holder TO one cash
premium, which will be OF not less value than
nve cents, nor more than five thousand dollars.
having paid the sum of one dollar Isl .oO), be-
Ing one years subscription to the Trdpetier, the
receipt whereof Is hereby acknowledged. The
premium distribution takes place on January
LIST, 1855, or before IL the required number OF
subscribers are received. tSigned,
The WASHINGTON TRAvELLER. lSeall
Ifyou or your friends wish to get more tickets
ior premiums you can call, or send your sub
". ".
72S 18th street northwest. Washington, b. c.
The tenth count of the information charges
Or. hale with selling tickets to divers persons
since the 18th of October, which persons are to
the attorney unknown.
Mr.. Thomas called the case to the attention
of the court, and Mrs. Lockwood, for the defend
ant pleaded not guilty.
Mr.. Thomas read the statute under which the
charge Is brought, which prescribes q penalty of
not more than $500 fine and one year in Jail.
PENDANTS office, at T23 18th street. He said
they found the defendant, who said he was a
partner in The 7rdceiier. There was also a
printing office in the building, and witness
FOUND number of circulars and tickets, as de-
scribed i'm the information, and receipts for the
same. signed by j. II. Wren. Witness read sew
eral circulars, which seemed To interest the
court. Witness found Mrs. Herman writing
letters headed The Trareiler, and her husband
was found IN the printing office. Witness read
from one OF the circulars the following:
$4,000 IN PREMIUMS.
Reader, did IL ever occur to you that you
never had SO generous an offer made you be-
tore? And it will, perhaps. never be made you
again. The Irdcetter has resolved to increase
LIST, 1886. To do will require that ii obtain
10000 new subscribers; AN inducement the
following unprecedented offer is made: To
every subscriber whether new or old who will
send us one dollar by postal note, or I'm q. $.
postage stamps, we will at once send a num-
bered ticket emitting every holder to one pre-
MUM in our grand distribution of $4,000,
and the paper for one year. Bear in mind that
there will be positively no blanks, but that
every holder of a ticket will receive premi-
The following is q list of the premiums.t hat will
be distributed by the TrdceVer To the 200, 900
readers who send in their subscriptions be-
tween now and the LIST Of January, 1856: