Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-06-07
LOTTERY CHIEFS
FINED $284,O0O.
FEDERAL COURT IN ALABAMA
PUT HONDURAS COMPANY
OUT OF BUSINESS.
ACKNOWLEDGE GUILT.
Plates, Printing Presses and Other Parts
of Big Gambling Outfit Confls-
Gated by Government

MOBILE, Ala, June An the district
court for the southern district OF Ala
bama pleas of guilty were yesterday en-
tered to an indictment charging consplr-
acy to cause the interstate carriage of
lottery advertisements by the following
named persons:
William P. Farmhouse, James Rea, c. w.
Bredow, William 2. Johnston, Louis {.
Graham, Edward L. Pinac, Davis Hennen
Norris Alfred Hennen Morris, Frank L.
Howard, Albert Baldwin, ST., Chapman
Hymns Paul Conrad, John Demarest, Wal
ter j. Demarest Edward j. Dem
arrest, all of New Orleans; John
Morris Rogers Jesse K. Baylis, Lester X.
Baylis, Wilmington, Del; James S. MORE,
Chicago; Harry W. Henderson, W. c. Hen
derson, Brooklyn, N. Y; Gen: W. L. Cabell,
bile; Joseph L. Shaw, Tom William, Henry
L. Plum, Washington, D. c.; Herman Brun-
ner, st. Louis; Oscar Hanger. Hoboken,
n j.: Frank T.. Johnson, Hartford; A. b.
Kaufman, Detroit, Mich; Harry J. Schott,
Baltimore; Wallace MastersOn, Savannah,
Ga.
Fines Aggregate $284,0o0.
Judge Toulmin today imposed fines
amounting to 1884, 600 In addition to
the pleas of guilty the defendants agreed
to surrender 20 the government for de-
struction all lottery books, plates and
other paraphernalia and, in addition, to
immediately dispose of the printing es-
Establishment belonging to the Honduras
National Lottery company, located at
Sixth and Orange streets, Wilmington,
Del, and operated under the name or the
John NJ. Rogers press, where the lottery
tickets have been printed for many
years.
Lottery Knocked Out.
With these pleas of guilty and the sur
render of all lottery material. the Hon
duras National Lottery 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 federal authorities first attempted
to break up the lottery business Oh the
passage of the act of 1876, forblddlng
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 matter. In 1893 the supreme
court. by a vote of 5 to 4, upheld the
constitutionality of the latter enactment
How the Scheme Worked.
Since the decision the lottery tickets
were printed at the lottery company S
plant in Wilmington, Del, and taken as
personal baggage by messenger from
Wilmington to New York, where they
were stored in different warehouses and
from time to time taken also as personal
baggage by messenger " w tohlIlS IOh'
where the packages were rechecked to
different places in the country. The
officers and agents of the company
operated under assumed names, and a
complete code was also used. The
drawings were held monthly at Puerto
Cortez and lists of the winning numbers
were printed in Mobile, Ala, and from
there shipped to the various state agents
throughout the country.
Government Opens Fire.
The printing establishment at Whining
ton was raidcd in the spring of 1906 and
plates from which the tickets were print
ed, together with considerable matter
relating to the lottery business seized.
The government was not at that time
able to establish conspiracy case, but
in January 1907, the printing establish
ment at Mobile was raided and certain
packages which had been shipped from
That city were seized at Atlanta, Ga,
after they had crossed the state line.
With the evidence thus obtained the gov
,ernment secured indictments against
those who entered plea of guilty, to-
gether with few others.