The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-24
LOTTERY CENTRES RAIDED'
TICKETS SEIZED, SAID TO HAVE
COST HOLDERS 100000,

Are Foyfeit-Any Prizes District Attorney
Can Collect on Them Go TO the Poor
Seven Arrests--Fainting Girl Cries
That She and Her Father Arc Ruined.
As a result Of four raids made yester-
day morning, the District Attorneys Office
believes that 1t has dealt an effective blow
to tho lottery business In this city. Thou
sands OF lottery tickets were conhscated
IN the raids, and 1t is estimated that they.
had cost their possessors at least 500 ,ooO
There were 80 many tickets that Assistant
District Attorney Kresel, who conducted
the raids, didn't have time to count them
yesterday.
The tickets were the output OF four COM
psnies-two German companies, the Louisi-
ana Lottery Company, now in Honduras,
and Mexican company In all, seven
prisoners were taken, and Mr.. kresel
said that they were the direct representa-
tives in this city OF the lottery companies.
Four, he said. are the men who buy the
tickets from the lottery companies and dis
tribute them to agents, who in turn sell
them at a small profit.
Before the wholesalers could get the
tickets they had to pay the companies for
them Their efore, as Mr.. Kresel explained.
the tickets coniscated yesterday had all
been paid for, and the men who put up the
money are arrested. The prisoners, Mr..
Kresal believes, have been ruined fnan-
oially. The law says that the tick cts are
forfeit and that 1t Us the duty Of the District
Attorney, should there be any distribution
OF property. to sue and recover for 1t. II
the county wins any prizes In the German
lotteries, the money goes into the county
treasury TO be used for the benefit Of the
poor. II there is not a winning ticket in
tho great bunch In Mr.. Kresels possession,
II would be reflection on the honesty OF
the game. Still the German law may pro-
vide for the annulment OF a drawing thus
invaded by the criminal process OF another
State. As to the laws In Honduras nobody
was daring enough yesterday to speculate
how they might be adjusted to the situation.
One prisoner Is q nineteen-year-old girl,
whose father also was arrested. She was
the manager of her fathers lottery shop.
She had great bunch Of lottery tickets
In her hand, and as she was being put into
a patrol wagon she shrieked that all her
father money was lost.
The raids wore the result Of a month e
investigation upon number OF complaints.
Several men complained that they had
winning tickets and could not get the
money. The raiders met at the Mulberry
street police station at 10 O'Clock. MIR
Kresel had charge. Reardon. Shea and
Brennan, former county detectives; Detec-
live Flood and Roundsman Haokett Of the
District Attorneys Office and six policemen
nom the station made up the party. All
the places visited were run under the guise
OF dry goods stores, Or real estate or steam
ship ticket oN1oes. ~
AtAHester street, Max Slutsky, the osten-
sible owner Of adrygoods store, was arrested.
Then Jacob Rosuck and his son Isaac
we're taken at Pike street and Asher Ger
mansky and his manager, Levi Molten
at 80 Canal street. Rosuck and Germansky
we're apparently selling steamship tickets
Harris Bernstein and his daughter Ray
vere bundled into tho patrol wagon at SO
Canal street.
The Sunday morning visits Of the patrol
wagon brought crowd In Its wake. and in
Canal street, at the Harris place, real
estate sign one flight up showed where
Harris and his daughter could be found
According to the raiders, when they
broke into the place, the girl, who had
charge Of the shop for her father, was be-
hind the counter with one hand clutching a
big bunch Of tickets. As soon as she under.
stood that the was under arrest she began
10 scream She swooned twice and finally
she Cried
These tickets are worth 10000. That's
oil the money papa and I have. We will
be ruined.
In each place there were a number OF
agents buying tickets. These mon were
searched, but not arrested Mr.. kresel
said that they would be used as witnesses
The prisoners were taken to Mulberry
street station. Some OF them were bailed
out.
The lottery tickets were put into hall
a dozen big paper boxes and carried to Mr.
Jeronle's house, in Rutgers street. There
were tickets issued by the Ducal Brunswick
Government Lottery. the Royal Saxony
Lottery Company, the Honduras Natona
Lottery Company and the Loteria De LIZ
Benefoencia OF the City OF Mexico.
The German lotteries are sanctioned
and controlled by the German Government
Dut IL Ii mlSOetnodnoi w bSh Vho aShOt<
in this State. The German lotteries sell 4
series Of six monthly tickets which cos
SIS. The series 10 subdivided into cheape
tickets. The Louisiana State Lottery tick
cts were sold for 25 cents, 30 cents. dolla
and two dollars. Tickets for the Mexican
lottery brought the same prices. excep
that there was a a ticket.
Some Of the tickets were In big stacks
but others had been counted OF and pu
into envelopes. Many OF the envelope
held 500 tickets each. On each envelope wa
aname, evidently that Of the agent who wa
to buy the tickets. There were more thai
ahundrsd envelopes filed with tickets an'
marked with names.
Lists Of former winning numbers for eacl
lottery were also found. with booksof names
addresses and memoranda. Mr.. Krese
didn't have time to 20 over tho books yes
terday but he said that they would un
doubleday show the names OF the regula
lottery agents all over town.
The greatest number Of tickets foun'
were German tickets for q drawing to b
made on Nov. q. According to Mr. Krese