The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-11-30

lands Of Dollars by Unscrupulous
Foreigners
FLon. the Kelo York Herald
Among the interruptions men in this city
are those who deal in foreign lottery tickets
Tbough the sale Of such tickets is prohibited
hv law these men do fourishing business
md no serious attempt has as yet been
made to stop them from preying on their
fellows.
18th the material for their fraudulent
.rs1ssctions. They are Prussia, Ssxony,
Bruuswick and Hamburg Each of these
governments patronizes a gigantic lottery,
eeba tickets for which it issues to its whole
cole agents, and they in turn dispose of
tbam to retail agents. Most of the tickets
ore sold in Europe, but many thousands are
snnuallv disposed of in this country.
The governments issue the tickets in good
fsith and take good care that only those
VINO are entitled to prizes shall receive
them The periodical drawings are held in
while representatives of the governments
and the people being present, and every
thing is conducted so fairly that no charge
of di3honorable conduct has ever been made
against the governments.
GAMBLING ON LARGE SCALE
The Prussian government is particularly
careful. Not only does it prohibit the sale
of its lottery tickets outside of its bounda-
ries but it also prohibits the sale of other
lottery tickets within its boundaries 1t
roes without saying that these stringent
rules are often broken.
The governments of Hamburg, Bruins
wick and Saxony do not care where their
lottery tickets are sold, so long as they get
money from them for their treasures, and
their wholesale agents have no difficulty in
snpplving the demand for them. no matter
whence it may come. AS a rule the retail
AGENTS in Europe, especially in Prussia,
have their regular customers and do rot
need to increase their business. Each of
these customers buys periodically a
ticket with certain number,
and whenever tickets are sold the
agent is bound to reserve for him
ticket bearing that number. Customers
may buy the same tickets for years, and the
agents are bound to reserve those tickets
for them, unless they are notified of their
customers death or of their intention to
give up gambling. A customer who has
been buying Prussian lottery ticket for
years and who has decided to tempt for
tune no longer can always get handsome
price for his right to a reserved ticket,
there being always many persons who are
anxious to purchase tickets, but who can
not do SO, because the number of the Prus-
sian lottery ticket is limited.
A HARVEST FOR swINDLERs.
Of Brunswick, Saxon and Hamburg lot
terry tickets an immense number is issued
annually, aad many are sent to retail
| agents in America. These agents make
large sums of money out of them by two
simple processes. In the first place they
charge hundred per cent. more than they
are actually worth, or would be asked for
nv in in, ba
second place they use effectual means to
transfer into their own pockets any large
| prizes which may be won by their custom
. ers
There are from four to six drawings in
each of these lotteries, and all the large
| prizes are reserved for the last drawing.
| Every ticket or portion of ticket sold par
tcipates in all the drawings, but Ameri-
can agents very often fail to mention this
fat to their customers, and deliver to them
only tickets which, they say, are good for
the first and second drawings. In this way
they make their money. A customer buys
such tickets, paying for them say 500 OF
this sum about 81 might fairly be charged
for chance in the first and second draw
ing while the balance is actually the price
of tickets to be used in the later drawings
When the second drawing is over, the
customer is convinced that his money is
lost, never dreaming that the agent not
only pockets SIS, but also runs the chance
Of winning lage prize at one of the later
drawings.
FoRGERs AND swINDLERs.
In case a customer should insist on re-
ceiving all the tickets to which he is emit
tlei, and should have the luck to draw a
SIS, O00 or $50, 900 prize in the last drawing,
the chances are thousand to one that he
will never receive the money. When any
such large prizes are drawn by Americans
the fact is cabled to the agents here by their
colleagues in Europe, and steps are at once
taken to falsify the official lists issued by
the governments, and which contain the
numbers of the winning tickets. Ii possible,
the figures of the tickets are altered by some
chemical process; otherwise lists which are
In every respect but one fac-simile of the
official lists are printed. The one point of
difference is that the, figures of the ticket
which has won the large prize are trans
1erred to ticket which has won a small
prize
The object of this trick is plain. The
agent RECEIVERS the lucky ticket from his
customer by showing him that he has won
small prize, and once the ticket is in his
possession he can draw the $25, 900 or
$4,000 to which his customer is entitled
and place it to his account in the bank.
Several such frauds have been perpetrated
80 OAN9, anu yeL no COulpldlIlb nus Dt0u
made to the authorities, the reason I'M
aoouotedly being that the purchasers of the
tickets knew that they had broken the law
qulte as much as the agents, and were
satisfled that they would get no redress. In
herman circles it is well known that a
broker of this city won $4,000 ON a lottery
Lcket TWO years ago and never got cent
u u the money. Yet he could not prove to-
gay that he had won it, because by making
MN believe that ne had won small prize
IAe agent recovered the lucky ticket-the
olly satisfactory evidence in the case-and
pocketed the money himself.
KNAVISH PRINTER
a printer is the best ally of these rogues
~ Uhls city. His name is known to hundreds,
VINO never suspect that he is an accomplice
VI Iorgers. Yet this man has type, rules,
paper and all the other material which en-
f roies MN to turn out at few hours notice
.isIs Of the winning lottery tickets, which
t no one I1 but an expert could distinguish from
tHe nsts issued by the foreign governments.
iol luis work it is said that he receives a
,alge price, and that his services are only
aequlred when it is necessary to cheat a
1T3T ts out of prize exceeding SIS, 000
nere smaller prizes are concerned the
s"lnulers simply erase the winning figures
oa1 substitute Others by some clever chemi-
cal process.
UNIQUE PARIS RESTAURANTS. III
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