New-York tribune., 1907-06-05
LOTTERY CASES ENDED.
HONDURAS FINES, $284 900.
Defendants Plead Guilty and Agree
to Quit Business.

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Mobile. June 4.-Judge Toulmin to-day i'm
posed fines in the cases of the defendants who
yesterday, in the court for the Southern District
of Alabama, entered pleas of guilty to an in
dictment charging conspiracy to cause the in
terstate carriage of lottery advertisements In
addition 10 the pleas of guilty, the defendants
agreed to surrender to the government for de-
struction all lottery books. plates and other
paraphernalia and also to dispose Immediately
Of the printing establishment of the Honduras
National Lottery Company in Wilmington, Del.
operated under the of the John NJ. Rogers
Press where the lottery tickets have been print
ed for years. The fines aggregate $2S4. 900
Following are the defendants:
William H Farmhouse. James Rea, c. w. Bre-
COW. William P. Johnston, Louis c. Graham. Ed
ward L. Pinac, Frank L. Howard, Albert Bald
WIN, sr, Chapman Hyams, Paul Conrad John
leans
Dave Hennen Morris and Alfred Hennen Nor
ris OF New York
John Norris Rogers. Jesse K. Baylis and Les
ter X. BayIs, Of Wilmington Del
James S MORE, of Chicago.
Harry ". Henderson and w. c. Henderson OF
Brooklyn y. Y
General w. L. Caben, of Dallas. Tex.
Robert X. Thompson, Of Mobile
Joseph L. Shaw. Tom William and Henry L.
Plum, Of Washington. D. c.
Herman BrunneT. of ST Louis
oscar Hanger, of HOboken.
Frank +. johnson. of Hartford
\. B. Kaufman, Detroit.
Harry J. SchOtt, Of Baltimore
wallace Masterson, of Savannah
The cases against the following were noIle
pressed: Walter ] Demarest, Stasius Meade
and Messrs. Hammer and Walker The cases
against John Hoag and Francis X Fitzpatrick
We're continued. although fines were named All
the others indicted were fined.
with the pleas of guilty and the surrender of
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terry Company which IS the successor of the old
Louisiana State Lottery Company, passed out of
existence ending a long struggle Of the federal
authorities
The government first attempted to break up
the lottery business on the passage of tho act
of 1877 forbiddng the transmission of lottery
matter by mail. In 1895 this was supplemented
by the act forbidding the Interstate carriage OF
lottery tickets or advertisements of lottery mat
ter In 1908 the Supreme Court by vote Of
to 4, upheld the constitutionaity Of the latter
enactment.
Since the decision the lottery tickets were
printed at the lottery companys plant, in Will
mington, Del, and taken personal baggage
by messengers from Wilmington 10 New York,
where they were stored in warehouses From
time to time the tickets were taken, also as
personal baggage, by messenger 70 Washington,
where the packages were recheCl1sd to various
cities. The officers and agents OF the company
operated under assumed names and a complete
code was also used. The drawings held
monthly at Puerto Cortez, Honduras and lists
OF the winning numbers were printed in Mobile.
Ala, and from there sent TO state agents
throughout the country
The printing establishment AT Wilmington was
raided in the spring of 1906. and plates from
which the tickets were printed together with
considerable matter relating TO the lottery busi-
ness seized The government not at that
time able to establish a conspiracy charge but
January. nrtnr.nR ny
Mobile raided and certain packages which
had been shipped from that city were seized at
Atlanta, after they had crossed the state line.
With the evidence thus procured the govern
ment obtained indictments against those who
entered a plea Of guilty. together with a few
others.
When April I3 tho Federal Grand Jury,
sitting IN Mobile. indicted the men who pleaded
guilty and were fined for conspiracy to violate
tho anu-lottery law, Dave Hennen Morris was
seen by reporter for The Tribune at his home.
No. 269 West 72d street and he then asserted
that neither he his brother Alfred Hennen
Morris. had anything 10 do with the lottery bus
mess.
Both OF the brothers repeated this denial on
the following day, stating that they had no in
terest in any lottery business. and they gave out
a statement signed by them Jointly, which was
printed in The Tribune OF April 10. The state
meut read:
Referring to the published reports of tho indict-
InCats found In Mobile for Il conspiracy violate
The anu-lottery laws OF the United States arising
out OF the alleged operations OF the Honduras Lot
terry Company. IN which II Is stated that
among tho owners OF that company. beg 10
state that neither of have any ownership
or other interest. direct or Indirect in any form
whatsoever In the Honduras Lottery Company
in any other lottery enterprise Of any description.
A. HENNEN NORRIS,
DAVE II. MORRIS.
The Morrises the sons OF John A. Morris.
long and widely known "the lottery king
4 gnI Oft 1ha Ta1IIe-
lana Lottery. in which he largely interested
and which the basis OF his fortune, had been
killed by the Louisiana Legislature.
At the home OF Dave Hennen Morris the care
taker said yesterday afternoon that he was at
Bar Harbor. Alfred Hennen Morris lives the
Throg's Neck Road, and the housekeeper there
said he down South, perhaps in Mobile"
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