The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-15
The Louisiana Lottery Smashed
at Last.

Many people nave entertained the
belief that the Louisiana State Lottery
Company of fragrant memory passed
an extension of its charter and driven
beyond the borders of the state from
which it took it's name. Many others
knew that the concern continued to do
business on the old plan, if not at the
old stand, under the title of the Hon
duras National Lottery Company, os-
tensibly domiciled at Puerto Cortez,
Spanish Honduras, whittier gallant
| old Gen. William L. Cabell used to
| journey from Texas once month to
| supervise the drawings. Very few peo-
| pie, however, had the remotest idea
that the practical business of the lot
terry had in point OF fact never been
taken out of this country, and that the
tickets for the drawings were printed
surreptitiously in the city of Whining
ton, Delaware.
The coils have been tightening
around the lottery gradually but
surely, thanks to the vigilance of the
general governments secret service
agents and the ability of its law Off
GERS, and the closing scene in the
drama was enacted at Mobile on Mon
day and Tuesday, the 3rd and 4th in
stants, when thirty persons ac-
cused OF completely in the unlawful
traf1c-or. as technically described in
the indictments, conspiracy to cause
the interstate carriage of lottery ad
vertisements ''-entered pleas of guilty
and were fined S284, 900 in the aggre-
gate by Judge Toulmin of the United
States district court for the southern
district of Alabama.
The names of the accused against
whom fines we're assessed and the
amounts they were condemned to pay
are as follows:
Fined $40, 900 each-Edward ]. Dem
Arrest, John Morris Rogers, John NJ.
Demarest, Paul Conrad, Chapman Hy-
ans, Albert Baldwin, Sr., Frank 7.
Howard, Albert Hennen Morris, David
Hennen Morris. ames E. Moore, Gen.
William L. Cabell, Edward L. Pinac,
Lewis S. Graham, Robert K. sThomp-
son, Jos. L. Shaw, William P. John
son, Jesse K. Bayliss, G. w. BredoW,
James Rea, Frank E. johnson, Henry
J. Schott, Henry L. Plum, Abraham
3. kaufman and Frank x. Fitzpat-
rick.
Fined $4,000 each-W allace Master
SOM VIM. P. Farmhouse, Thomas Will
liams. Lester K. Bayliss and VIM. c.
Henderson,
Fined s250O-Harry w. Henderson.
Fined S1500-Oscar Hanger.
Fined $500-Herman Brunner.
Fined $200-John Hoag.
In consideration of the simple impo-
sition of fines without Imprisonment
penalties the defendants not only con-
sented to admit their guilt, but agreed
to surrender to the government for
destruction all the paraphernalia and
apparatus of the lottery and to dis
pose of the printing plant in Whining
ton, besides pledging themselves never
again to engage in the illegal business.
The fines were all paid and the ac-
cused discharged from custody except
in two cases-those Of Frank K. Fitz-
patrick and John Hoag, which were
continued until June q owing to the
OF the defendants.
The charges against four aceused-R.
G. Hammer, Walter J. Demarest, Sta
sius Meade and Fl. S. Walker-were
dismissed by nolle prosequi.
The government officials connected |
with the prosecution and Sin at the |
death were: Assistant Attorney Gen |
eral Alfred W. Cooley of Washing |
ton; j. P. Nields, district attorney of |
Wilmington, Del; John E. Wilkie, |
chief of the United States secret serv- |
ice department, and w. Ell. Armbrecht, |
assistant attorney general in charge /
of the lottery prosecutions for the gov
ernment. Judge Larry O'DonnelI of I
New Orleans represented the defend
ants in the final proceedings.
Thus closes the long and eventfuI |
history of the celebrated Louisiana
State Lottery Company, an octopus of
the first water in its palmy days that
once seemed to hold the destinies of
this commonwealth In the hollow al it's
hand, but which has found its qtlSaEus,
IS many other hunlaWful combina-
lions of capital" are destined to do,
under the Roosevelt administration.
Vale and farewell, La. S. l.!