New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-02-22
DOG BITES IN Raid.
Detectives Say Prisoners Ran "Fake
LOtteaY

| After working a week in conjunction with
| postofice inspectors to get evidence against a
suspected lottery headquarters in The Bronx,
| Detective Sergeants McConvile, Peabody ana
| Clarke yesterday made raid on the place ana
| captured several prisoners. A fox terrier who
did not understand the right of detectives to
| make a raid interfered and bit Peabody on
| the leg, making unlocked for diversion
The attention of the postal authorities to a
lottery in The Bronx was called by the return
through the Dead Letter Office Of package OF
the lottery tickets which had been sent to CUBA
and had been broken open there. The package
was addressed to Francisco Narrevo, in Cuoa'
and was marked to be returned to Louis LEVIN
No. 333 Pleasant-ave., New-York. PostoI1ce
Inspector Boyle sought the aid of the detecuVe
sergeants who have been running down sWlnd'
ling turf syndicates recently in investiga ting
the lottery supposed to be run by Levin in his
brownstone house in Pleasant-ave.
Boyle and the detectives watched Levin S
house several days Yesterday Peabody fol-
lowed a man, who gave his name later as Will
lam Torrib. to Levin's house. and when Torrib
was admitted the detective demanded to be
let in too at the same time keeping the door
open with his foot. A man on the INSIDE trleo
to push the detective out. A woman III the
hall screamed, and little fox terrier ran
valiantly to the scene of the struggle anu
grabbed Peabody by the leg. The hghE WouId
have gone against the detective, but McCon-
Vile rushed up the steps and administered
kick which sent the dog bowling to cover Then
all the detectives and Boyle ran into the house
and placed all the there under arrest.
Peabody found that the dog had bitten him
severely and he hurried downtown TO the 1aS-
teur Institute to have the wound cauterlzeo
The woman and the terrier were left III CHAR &c
of the house when the detectives had seafcheu
1t from top to bottom and had carried away
what evidence they wanted, along Win tue
prisoners. The five men arrested oescrloeu
themselves as Louis Levin. a real estate oedlel'
Lester Levin, insurance agent berharo
Levin. a livery stable keeper Max Simpson, IN
surance agent and William Torrib The detec-
tives said they found abundant documentary
evidence that the house where the Levins lived
was used as an office for the lottery.
Later in the day the detectives arrested Leo
Strauss a printer, at No. 2O3 East Ohe-huh-
dred- and-tenth-st., and George Dechstatter' d
boy employed in the printing office The de-
ta3tfves said the lottery tickets used by the
Levins were printed by Strauss. They said me
pIates from which the tickets were printed were
found in Strauss's place. The tickets purporI
to be those of the Mexico Lottery company Tue
drawings being made at Pueblo, Mexico aIiI
The tickets bear the signatures, IN PRINT, OF NJ
Marsori Martinez and Jeromino RocomdraH
bu1 the detectives said yesterday that the names
were fictitious and that the lottery was vas
fake" and conducted by the Levins as means
of gwindling people All the prisoners in the
case were locked up at Police Headquarters. =
Inspector Boyle. on returning TO ms once III, i.
the Federal Building, said that several or the
circulars and letters found in the house pore
the name Levin. He declared that the tlckets
sold nv the prisoners were not even a poor lIni-
tation of the tickets sold by the regular Me&l-
can lottery concern. He said that 1t was the
plan of the prisoners TO see that none or the
tickets with numbers calling for prizes We're
sold Tickets worth $40 were sold for 50. and
the buyers in turn sold them at their apparent
face value Levin was interested in the ola
Louisiana Lottery, and had amassed q fortune
in running fake" lotteries and acting as agent
for real lottery concerns. he had acted az
agent for the Honduras Lottery, and also for the
lottery conducted at Frankfort, Germany.
The prisoners will be arraigned In the To1nos
court this morning, and 1t Is probabe that they
will then be turned over to the federal au-