Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-06-04
END OF THU. LOTTERY
Honduras Company Can No
Longer Do Business.
FINES AMOUNT TO 1921, 900
Many Firms and individuals Plead
Guilty to Indictments.
PRINTING DONE IN WILMINGTON
Delaware City Was the Center of OPP
erations in This Country for
Some Time.

MOBILE, Ala, June 4.-Firms and indi-
viduals scattered through the country from
New York to Texas and from New Orleans
to California entered pleas of guilty this
morning in the district court fer the southern
district of Alabama to indictments charging
conspiracy to cause the interstate carriage
of lottery advertisements. Judge Toulmin
imposed fines aggregating 1891 900, and the
defendants have agreed to surrender to the
government for destruction all lottery
books, plates and para phernalia and to dis
pose of the printing establishments belong
ing to the Honduras National Lottery Com
pany, situated at 9th and Orange streets,
Wilmington Del, and operated under the
name Of the John NJ. Rogers Press. For
many years, it is said, lottery tickets have
been printed there.
This action practically puts out of exist
ence the Honduras National Lottery Com
pany which is successor to the old Louis
lana State Lottery Company, so popular
In the south, and conducted with such sue
cess generation ago.
Pleaded Guilty.
The following entered pleas of guilty to
the Indictment:
William p. Farmhouse, James Rea c. W.
Bredow, William P. Johnston, Louis s.
Graham, Edward L. Pinac, Paul Conrad,
John Demarest, Walter ]. Demarest, Ed
ward j. Demarest, all of New Orleans
John Morris Rogers, Jesse X Baylis, Les
ter Bayls, Wilmington, Del; Frank Kirk
patrick, Cambridge, Mass; James s..
MORE. Chicago, ILL.,; Harry w. Henderson,
w. c. Henderson, Brooklyn, N. Y; Gen.
w. L. Cabell, Dallas. Tex; Robert Thomp-
son, Mobile, Ala; Joseph l.. Shaw, Stasius
Meade, Tom Williams, Henry L. Plum
Washington, d. c.; Herman Brunner ST.
LOUIS, Mo-; Oscar Hanger, Hoboken, N. J.;
Frank E. Johnson, Hartford, Conn; A. B.
ker, Royal c. Hammer, Indianapolis. Ind. ;
Harry j. Scott, Baltimore, Md; Wallace
Matthewson. Savannah. Ga, and John
Hoag, San Francisco, Cal.
The operations of the lottery company
have been carried on with difficulty since
the passage in 1895 of the anti-lottery act
forbidding interstate carriage of lottery
tickets or advertising matter pertaining
thereto.
Counsel for the lottery companies at this
time. however, advised them that the act
was unconstitutional, and for some years
thereafter printed matter was transported
by express. In the same year the Su-
preme Court Of the United States handed
down decisions sustaining the constitution
atty Of the act of 1895, and after con-
ference at the Waldorf-Astoria in New
York the lottery people decided that the
only method open to them was the trans
mission Of the matter as personal baggage,
which, under the advice of counsel, they
concluded was not a violation of the law.
BY this system tickets were distributed by
agents, who carried them in trunks, dis
tributed them to subagents, who in turn
sold them to the public Monthly drawings
for prizes were held at Puerto Cortez, Hon
duras, under the direction of Gen. w. L.
Cabell of Dallas, an eX-confederate soldier;
c. w. Bredow and James Rea of New Or
leans as commissioners. The prizes were
terry people said to have been enormous.
Lottery Flourished.
In the early sixties lotter.- flourished in
Louisiana, sanctioned by the best families
| and authorized by tie constitution of the
| state. Drawings were held at that time on
the second Tuesday Of each month, and the
prizes amounted to over a million dollars.
The gross receipts, according to old state
ments. reached $4,000 GOO year, and the
net receipts to the promoters and stock
holders were approximately 40 per cent of
the amount realized on the sale of tickets.
The charter of this old company expired in
1894, and after much litigation, during which
offers to the state of $1,350, 600 a year were
made, headquarters were finally transferred
to Honduras.
After the conviction in the district court
of Delaware of John T. Dickey, who acted
as agent of the Mexican state lottery, the
attention of the federal authorities was
directed to the above named printing eStab-
liShment at Wilmington, Del, which was
watched by secret service agents and which
has brought about the present conviction of
those connected with the concern.