The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-06-16
SOME OF THE FRAUDS.
Fake Lottery Concerns That Exist Only
for the Purpose of Selling
Worthless Tickets.

Perhaps the biggest fake lottery concern
that ever came into this City was the San
Domingo Lottery fraud. 1t never had q
drawing, but it has sold perhaps a quarter
of million dollars worth of tickets in the
past few years, and is still operating here.
The knowing ones do not patronize it
any more. No gambler would think of
buying San Domingo ticket. Ask one.
But the people who buy lottery tickets are,
alas, not all gamblers, or knowing ones.
A man we'll known in this City is said to
have brought the San Domingo Company
here. They have no charter at San Do
mingo, but they make a pretense of hay.
ing an office address there-but never a
drawing there or elsewhere.
H. w. Earle g. Co. are the agents for
the San Domingo. They were formerly
located at 234 Kearny street. But they are
feeting mortals, Earle IL Co. When Chief
Crowley's men learned their residence
they quickly moved. They have moved
very often in the last six months. The
real men behind the San Domingo Com
pany in this City did not appear on the
scene until rather recently, when one of
the men bolted with some of the Doodle.
Then the names were banded about the
street, and some people were surprised at
the prominence of them.
There is the Fox fake. Even the very
young and uninitiated know that this con-
Germ is a fraud of the first water without
even the pretense of drawing. E. Fox &
Co. the concern is styled. 1t has or had
offices in the Columbian business block. It
sells tickets only to the very green. A man
named Lloyd is behind it, but he goes by
the name of Frost here. In Kansas CITY
he was fined $1,000 for vagrancy in order to
drive him out of town. He claims now
that his lottery headquarters are located in
Kansas City. But the Police Department
of that city has quite another story to tell
He advertises, like the San Domingo fake.
prizes as high as $1,000. They might Just
as well say $50,000,000 and have done with
it. That would be as near to the truth.
Then there is the Montana fraud that
operates here to some extent. There's g.
tobacconist on East street, near Clay, who
can tell you something about the Montana
fake. In one month the concern cleared
over SIS, 600 in this State. The prizes are
yet to be distributed, though several peo-
pie in this City hold little slips of paper
that they paid good money for and which
should ent;tle them to quite neat fortunes.
They will never get cent. The Montana
is not SO well known as Fox's and
the San Domingo, but it is all the more
dangerous because of that.
And the Spanish American-and there
are more of the frauds than can be told
about here's another of the fake lot
teries. Their sole business is to rob the
unsuspecting out of quarters and halves
and whole dollars. Drawings, priest The
words have no meaning to the Spanish
American concern, except in their circu-
lars. This fake had offices in the Flood
building until the CALL began its anti
lottery crusade. Then they moved.
The Little Mexican is another fraud in
the lottery world. 1t was started by three
sure-thing gamblers and confidence men,
who robbed the unsuspecting out of good
deal of money. But they couldn't keep