The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1907-06-06
BROKEN
AFTER LONG FIGHT
FINALLY GUSTS
THE COMBINE THAT sue
cEEDED OLD LOUISIANA.
BIG FORTUNE IN FINES
Assessed Those Who Pleaded Guilty
to Running the Honduras Com
Extreme Measures
Used tc Float Tickets.

GSSh ~ y t14N II '~fN~5--'
Mobile, Ala., Inne ] IN tha dls-
7rlct couft TOR the Southern District
Of Alabama pleas u guilty Weaa fess
terday eaetred % am Indictment
charging conspiracy % cause the n.
terstate carriage Of lottery adYertisqs
ments by the following named pef
sons. William r Pafkhouse. James
Rea, Z. N. Bredow William Y. Iphl'-
son, louis Cs Graham, Edwaff ~
nae. Davis fIennen Morris. Altse
Hcnnen Morris, Frank II Howard N
bert Baldwin, sr Chapman HYans
Paa Conrad lofn DemaEest ara sa7
ward u Demares All u New nm
leans
john Morris Rogers. Jesse K IaY-
lisa and Lester II Bayliss Win nfs-
ton, Del
James i Moire Chicago III
Harry MI Henderson and vi n
Henderson Brooklyn N. y
General M. 81 Cahea Dallas FeSas
Robert X Thompson. MaFile.
joseph II. shaw Tom Williams and
Henry T.. Plum Washington q
Herman Rranner. St Lonis
Oscar Hunger, Hoboken. M Z
Frank Il. Johnson, Hartford
| A. B. Kaufman. Detroit, Mich
Harry Nj. i. schott, Baltimore
Wallace Masterson Sayannah Ga-
Heavy Fines imposed.
Today the eases against Waltef /.
nemarest siasius Meade. Hamcr ana
walker were nallied. Those aga'n7t
Iohn Hoag ana Francis II Patrick
were continued though fines wes@
named. AIT the others were finna on
their pleas Of guilty, the agzr ri Z
amounting tn 1884 .ttl0 III adaii nH f7
tho pleas III guilty the 1efenlanis
agreed III surrender to tAe g1yafns
mpnt far destruction all lutRi.Y boots,
.lllatea ami ashs Glarapllfsfa ant.
fin aaalfjaf III ftitsssa IsfssSfSssAssf
line printing establishment he1ois FsS
lto the Honduras Nati1nal tnteFY
company, located at Six b AMI orange
streets. Wilmington, Del, ard oper'
lated undcr the uame Of tHe John M'
Rogers Press where the l7if#ff
Tickets have been printed for many
Iyears.
with these pleas Of guilty and tne
Surrender Of all lot cry material the
Honduras National L.ctte'y company
which is The successor Of the ga
louisiana state Lottery company,
PASSED out OF existence ending a long
struggle with the federal authorities
The federal authorities frs at
tempied to break up the lottery bns.-
ness on the passage of the act Of 1877
forblddng the transmission Of lottery
matter by mail. In 1895 this was sup
plementea by he act forbiddIng the
interstate carriage of lottery tieheeS
O. the advertisements of lott ry mat
ter In 1903 the supreme court by q
vote of FIVE 10 four upheld he CON
sttutonality of the latter enactment
To Evade the Law.
Since the decision the lottery
, tickets were printed al The lottery
company plant in Wilmington, Dell
ana taken as personal baggage by
messengers fro mWfmington 70 New
York. where they were stored IA ah'
fefcnt warehouse mud from time 90
r tim take also as personal baggage hy
m,sseHgar % washington where ine
paekagos were rechecked to diheie ieu'
+ ,Joces I'm the country. The Officers
ar1 AGENTS of the company orefalrH
,rIer ASSUMED uamos and complete
). code was also used. The dfawinss
y were hold monthly ar Puerto Coriez
z. ana lists OF i5o winning namhHf'
#. were nrinted ri Mobile. Ala and from
g there shipped 90 The various sra G
81 agents throughout ths country
p Tho printing establishment ~ VII
q miuetnn WIS raidcd IN ihe spring q
g 1896 and plates from which The tesets
r vsfo priuscl. together with consider
o. shlo matter relating 20 the loticry
4 ir.ioezs. seized. The goFelHmTn'
0. was not al that dmc atie 70 esia'iiis'
conspiracy case. bct in 3annaf ff
1901 fhe printing csfaai'shmca ~
Mobile was raNef and ~cHlin pafk
acr-- rhirh had hosn sh'npc4 ir''i
'lr7i city vcre seized at Atlanta ca.
+, after fhev had cri-s q fhe sfat" ne
WIN thc etifcuco ffHs obiaine'
Z. .he government s,~ufsi lu iictH-eni
i. -esfr-f fHo.a Fi.t cnfc cI q T'ta o
.rirr lreeihcr vIs f0w others.
1900.