Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-16
BIG PROFITS IN LOTTERY
FEDERAL OFFICERS SAY OWNERS
GOT se,ooo,oo A YEAR.
Morrisses Declare in Statement on In
dictments That They Have No
Interest in the Game

NEW ORLEANS, April 16.-That profits
of 6,cOo,oC0 year were divided among the
men at the head of the Honduras lottery is
the assertion made by the federal officers
in Mobile, whose Investigations have re-
suited in the twenty-four indictments for
conspiracy. They declare that Alfred Hen
men Morris and Dave Hennen Morris of
New York and New Orleans and Albert
Baldwin. ST., and Frank T. Howard, bank
ers of this city, are the owners of the COM
pany and got the great share of these
profits.
Evidence showing an organization
throughout the country has been gathered
by the government through its raids and
the admissions of some of the men impli-
Gated This organization called for huge
expenditures all the way along the line, but
even after they were paid there was plenty
left for the men higher up" When the
cases are tried. it is said. the country will
be astonished at the revelations Of the
widespread operations Of this big gambling
scheme, despite all the efforts of the gov
eminent to stop them.
Should the federal officers prove their case
against the four men mentioned, they Will
show that the lottery business of the coun-
try has simply been handed down from
father to son, although the younger
MOrrlSeS ana HOWARD nave sought 10 Tree
their names from connection with lotteries.
Undoubtedly proof of such connection
would again raise questions among society
people of New Orleans which were raised
in the excitement over the old Louisiana
lottery.
Was Ostracised.
Alfred Hennen Morris and Dave Hennen
Morris are sons Of the late John A. Nor
ris, whose father was known as the Lot
farv of Dola re On, hot thar
side they are grandsons of Alfred Hennen,
an illustrious jurist Of Louisiana.
1t was through the late Charles 7. How
ard, father of Frank T. Howard, that the
elder Morris and his associates, among
them Baldwin, obtained from a RECONSTRUCT
ton legislature the charter of the Louisiana
Lottery Company for twenty-five years
Howard was the first president of the COM
pany.
While the Morrises and the Towards and
their associates amaSSed fortunes, social
sentiment for years ran very strongly
against them. Howard was blackballed
when he applied for membership in the
Jockey Club, which operated the famous
Metaire race track. He swore that he
would convert the track into a cemetery
and today the Howard family tomb stands
on the site.
When the younger Howard married social
antagonsm told so heavily that the father
forsook a mansion he had built in New Or
leans and made his home at Biloxi. His
wife's life was rather desolate then, but
she was very lovable and charitable wom-
an She built the present Church of the
Redeemer as memorial to her husband
and purchased the beautiful West home ad-
Joining and donated it to the church as a
rectory. Frank T. Howard has always
made his home in New Orleans and in re-
cent years has been prominent socially.
100000 Month.
In its halcyon days the Louisiana Lot
100000 a month. with prizes running about
90 per cent thereof. Unsold tickets were al
ways put In the wheel, however, and often
drew the prizes. The principal stockholders
amassed big fortunes.
When John A. Morris died his wealth was