The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1905-06-09
The United States Gov.
eminent Arresting Lot
terry Ticket Vendors.
Canton Agents Are Dis
turbed Over a Cleve.
land Agents Arrest.
Same Company Had an
Agent Here.

Local parties who have been active
ly engaged in the selling OF lottery
t.ckets are viewing with alarm the
campaign being conducted by the
government TO stamp out such Illegal
business. In regards to one com.
pany, tickets which have been sold
in this city, the Cleveland Press
gives the following account of the ar
rest of a Cleveland agent OF the
company;
On an indictment by the federal
grand Jury of San Antonio, Texas,
Byron s. Stapleton, a cigar dealer at
ia Superior street. was arrested on
with conspiracy. The arrest was made
by Deputy United States Marshal
Clobitz, who was accompanied ITO
Stapleton's place of business by Col.
Moore, United States postoffice in
spector. Stapleton was taken to the
Office of the United States district at.
torney, where, after consultation with
his attorneys, he succeeded in having
his case continued until Saturday.
June 10, giving S2,500 bail.
Stapleton has been out of the city
for a week or so. An attempt was
n ade to arrest him, but not unding
him in the city the marshal at that
time confiscated lottery tickets and
circulars giving the dates and the
numbers of drawings.
Uncle Sam has decided to stamp
out the lottery business in the Unit
cd States and crusade against this
form of gambling is about to be be-
gun all over the country
The claim is made that the lottery
known as the Beneficencia Publica, Gr
the City of Mexico, is not a Mexican
affair, but is being conducted entire
ly in San Antonio for the benefit,
not of the ticket purchasers, but of
the owners Of the concern.
Col Moore, the postofIice inspector
OF this district, spent considerable
time in San Antonio investigating the
lottery. "The tickets" said Col
Moore, Thursday, never saw Mex
leo All the printing and all the
other business is conducted in San
Antonio. saw their Iithographiug
output and their room where they
print the tickets by thousands. From
that point they are sent all over the
United States. They don't use the
mails or the express companies. One
OF the men starts out with trunk.
full of tickets, stops off in different
fnUnQ uh1ra thnrn a
leaves the agencies as many of the
bundles as they want We found
that their average receipts amounted
to 100000 a month Out of that
little went to the people who bought
tickets. Every now and then they
would allow a Drize tn no drawr -
some localities that needed strength
ening in the SAFE Va Llcnets. .-....
however was only an occasional bait.
The grand jury at San Antonio re-
turned 81 conspiracy indictments.
The indictment against Stapleton
is an elaborate affair. 1t contains
the names Of some of the persons
indicted, "and one P. S. Stapleton.
whose name is given to the grand
jury unknown. and hence not here set
forth, Of the city of Cleveland, in the
state Of Ohio. together with divers
other evil disposed persons, whose
names are to the grand jury yet un.
lnown, unlawfully, and knowingly did
conspire, combine, confederate and
egree together between and among
themselves nnlawfully to commit an
0ffense against the United States"