The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-12
THE LOTTERY EVIL DYING,
A Few Women Peddlers Are
Now the Only Public
Vendors.
THEY DEAL IN coUNTERFEITs
Chief Crowley Has Offered a Re-
ward to Each Officer Who Sc
cures a Conviction.

| Chief Crowley is authority for the state
ment that these are bad days for the lot
terry traffic, despite the fact that daily
| publish the reading notices and advertise
ments of the lottery frauds and fakes.
And to make the weather still more frosty
for the lottery peddlers and dealers. Chief
Crowley has issued an order calling upon
all officers to exercise the utmost vigilance
In arresting vendors of lottery tickets.
And to the order he has offered a reward
for extra efforts. Hereafter every officer
who shall secure the conviction of lot
terry ticket vender or dealer will be en-
titled to a three days leave of absence
with full pay. Doubtless this will have a
beneficial effect in stimulating the zeal of
the officers.
Detective Wright, who has the lottery
detail, does not, of course, come within
the provisions of this reward, but he has
been active of late nevertheless. His last
important arrest was that of Kentz the
barber on Morton street, just above
Kearny. Kentz was found with seventy
i've Mexican Lottery tickets in his posses
sion-every one of them a fake, by the
way. He pleaded guilty and paid a fine of
probably be more than that.
Cakes agency for the Honduras, on
Grant avenue, is now watched closely by
the police. Every dav no less than five
officers visit his place and remain there
during most of the day. Occasionally,
also, Detective Wright drops in with a
search warrant and puts Mr.. Cakes to the
necessity of displaying the contents of his
safe and desk. But of course, no lottery
tickets are found. Mr.. Cakes has a secret
place for them. Recently he was con-
victed and fined, but it seems he has gone
back to his old business again.
A few days ago Wright and Officer Green
made trip to the mail dock. There they
found Charlie Waters coming off the
steamer San Bias. He sold the officers
ticket. The next day he was convicted in
the Police Court.
The police have heretofore been lenient
with the women peddlers, but these have
increased recently, since so many OF the
men have been Criven out of the traffic,
and now Chief Crowley has said that an
officer has no right to take cognlzance OF
the sex of an offender when in the dis
charge OF his duty. In plain words this
means that the women peddlers are to be
dealt with the same as the men. A good
many women now haunt the Western Adj
dition residences. They have pocket full
of lottery tickets, chiefly counterfeits OF
Lne L1tGle LOulSldnd, anu udTusluCk story.
Their plan is to pour their tale OF imagin-
airy misfortunes into the ears of credulous
housewives, and when they have gained
sympathy then offer lottery ticket for
sale on the ground that they do not care
to accept charity. Detective Wright is
laying plans now to put stop to this sort
of swindle. In nine cases out of ten the
tickets these hard-luck women have are
purchased from Epson, the expert coun-
terfeiter, and are not worth Except to the
peddler) the paper they are printed upon.
Some of the Little Louisiana officials
claim that this is not the case and that
there are plenty of their genuine tickets
on the market But if this is true then it
is easy to stamp the Little Louisiana as a
fraud, for every day they turn away many
people who present tickets, the numbers Of
which have been advertised as prize win
ners. Hundreds of people can be found
about town who are wroth at the Little
Louisiana for not paying the prizes as adj
vertised. Either these are victims of Up
sons counterfeits, which are far more nu-
merous than the genuine tickets, or it is
true, as many of them claim. that the Lit
tie Louisiana is fake lottery company and
only pays small prize now and then in
order to lure on its victims.