The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-02-05
Counsel forLottery Com
pany Appear Before
Covernm't Attorney
LIABLE TO FINES
OF SOME S30O.0O0
Government Claims Violation Of
Act Under Which Louisiana
Lottery Was Driven
Outflow Prose
cution Came
About.
.nY wAI.rER EpwARp 1IARRIs

BY WALTER EDWARD HARRIS.
WASHINGTON, D. c.. February "A
hearing was accorded to the legal repre-
scntatlyes OF the Honduras Lottery Com
pany to-day. The conference between
,he,n and the attorneys of the Depart
mcnt OF Justice began at 2:So and lasted
all the afternoon. Nothing tangible was
; decided
4 The lottery peoplc, plainly speaking. are
asking for quarter. promising to SO out
OF business ana be good. The govern
,nent Is not satisfied with promises OF
Eood behavior merely. ard evidently In
tends to insist upon something punitive,
as most p.lIpabl5 deserved. in view OF
iic fact that tiNg company Is taken MS
the legatec os the old Louisiana Lottery
Company, TO suppress and destroy which
for all time that business and all other
lotteries an act was passed by Congress
In 1875
II ia under that act that the prosecu-
tion Is 10 proceed. Tho comforting div
striet attorneys, summoned here by the
department. are going over the evidence
tonight With the ctet of the secret
4 service.
Liable 70 Big Fines.
Under the act WilicI, has been violated.
as The government alleges, tiia lottery
company is liable to fines which Will
aggregate s}59Gge. ". J, Dcmarcst pres
ident OF the company and Michael 20 Don
relI. attorney for 1t. OF New Orleans. as
well as Jos. H. Lyons. local attorney
az Mobile. are here ,oolsng after the
interests OF the accused men. and were
III the conference iu-GRy. The conference
between the Lottery people and t1le de-
rartment officers is likely to last sew
efai days.
The eYidepca in the hands of the de-
laf&ment was secured largely by rails
s!iau!laaeousiy fpfede isy she secret scrrica
or January I'd !r, twenty different cities
upon as many aga,icias Among the cities
IN which agencies operated besides Mob.ie
and New Orcang are Memphis, NASH
yillc. Richmond. Birmingham. Louisville.
Cincinnati, and largely in Chicago. II is
I said that among tho stockholders of tho
company besides old louisiana Lottery
people Ia New Orleans are one ricl, mnn
each In Boston. Brooklyn, Wilmington,
Del. ana this city.
Having Tickets Printed.
The first step taken by the Fovernment
WAS the arrest Of John r. Rodgers a
wealthy Wilmington nan, who was llav-
ing lp.tery tickets printed
rllc government worked carefully on the
case for some time when the next best
evidence was obtained through ". H.
Armbrccht. district attorney for the
Southern Distrc; Of Alabama. It was
through his work, assisted by the secre,
service. that the raid 1yns made at Mo.
bile. where prize lists bearing advertise.
ments We're printed This was on the &c
of January. and tho arrest of the print
ers ard pressinen intcrfercd with nnt
delayed the getting out OF two evening
newspapers at Mobile. Confessions o
agents were shor:lv obtained. The cx
y press companies aided, Insisting they hat
been deceived Then followed the sum
moning Of district attorneys to Washing
ton 10 confer with Assistant Attorney
General Cooley and Solicitor-Genera
u HnYt -.