The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1907-06-05
END OF LOTTERY CASE
More Than Thirty Defendants
Plead Guilty at Mobile.
FINES OF S284, 900 IMPOSED
All Books, Plates and Other Parapher-
MALTA Of the Honduras National Lot
terry Company Surrendered to the
Government for Destruction.


Government for Destruction.
Mobile, Ala, June SIN the dis
trict court for the Southern district OF
Alabama pleas Of guilty were entered
to an indictment charging conspiracy
to cause the interstate carriage Of lot
terry advertisements by the following
named persons:
William p. Farmhouse, James Rea,
C. w. Bredow, William p. Johnson,
Louis C. Graham, Edward l.. Pinac
Davis Hennen Morris, Alfred Hennen
Morris, Frank L. Howard, Albert Bald
win, Sr., Chapman ,Hyams, Paul Con
rad, John Demarest, Walter j. De
marest, all of New Orleans; John Nor
ris Rogers, Jesse K. Baylis, Lester X.
Baylis, Wilmington, Del; James s.
Moire, Chicago; Harry w. Henderson,
w. c.. Henderson, Brooklyn, N. Y;
General w. l.. Cabell, Dallas, Tex;
Robert X. Thompson, Mobile, Ala. !;
Joseph L. Shaw, Tom William, Henry
L. Plum, Washington, d. c.; Herman
Drummer, St. Louis; Oscar Hanger
Hoboken, N. j.; Frank e. Johnson,
Hartford, Conn; A. B. Kaufman, De-
troit, Mich; Harry ]. Schott, Balti-
more; Wallace Masterson, Savannah,
Ga. Judge Toulmin imposed fines
amounting to $2S4,000.
All Property Surrendered.
In addition to the pleas of guilty the
defendants agreed to surrender to the
government for destruction all books,
plates and other paraphernalia and In
addition to Immediately dispose OF the
printing establishment belonging to
the Honduras National Lottery com
pany, located at Sixth and Orange
streets, Wilmington, Del, and oper
ated under the name Of the John M
Rogers press, where the lottery tick
cts have been printed for many years.
With these pleas of guilty and the
surrender of all lottery material the
Honduras National Lottery company
which is the successor of the old Lou
isiana state lottery, passed out OF ex
istence, ending a long struggle OF the
federal authorities.
The federal authorities first at
tempted to break up the lottery busi
ness on the passage of the act OF 1871
forbidding the transmission of lottery
matter by mail In 1905 this Was
supplemented by the act forbiddins
tho interstate carriage of lottery tick
cts or advertisements Of lottery mat
ter. In 1903 the supreme court, by q
vote of 5 to 4, upheld the constitution
ality of the latter enactment,
Carried as Personal Baggage.
Since the decision the lottery tick
cts were printed at the lottery com
pany's plant In Wilmington, Del, and
taken as personal baggage by mes
sengers from Wilmington to New
York, where they were stored In diff
ferent warehouses and from time to
time taken, also as personal baggage
by messenger to Washington, where
the packages were rechecked to dlf
ferent places The officers and agents
Of the company operated under as
sumed names and 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. The printing
establishment at Wilmington was
raided in the spring of 1906 and plates
from which the tickets were printed
together with considerable matter re
lating to the lottery business, seized
The government was not at that time
able to establish a conspiracy case
but in January. 1907, the printing es
tablishment at Mobile was raided and
certain packages which had beer
shipped from that city were seized al
Atlanta, Ga, after they had crossed
the state line.
With the evidence thus obtained
the government secured indictments
against those who entered plea o1
guilty, together with few others
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