The Pensacola journal., 1907-06-05
Judge Imposes Fines that
Range Anywhere from !,
$4,000 to $780,
BELIEF THAT THE FAMOUS OLD
LOTTERY CONCERN WILL NOW
CEASE FOREVER TO DO BUsl.
MESA RESUME OF RECORD
OF THE CONCERN UNDER ITS
TWO DIFFERENT NAMES.
snecIaI = rhe Inurnai.

the United States Circuit Court, to-
day sentenced, with fines ranging
from $500 to $4,000, thirty of the
tlIirty-six men charged with conspir-
acy under the anti-lottery law. Two
of the defendants failed to appear,
and four of the cases against four
of the men were nolle prosecuted.
Those sentenced all had either plead
ed guilty on original arrangement, or
had decided to so plead when called
for trial to-day. The fines to-day i'm
posed aggregate S254.500.
Those Fined.
Those sentenced, with the amount
of the fine in each instance, were as
follows:
$4,000 each-Albert Baldwin, Sr,
Frank T. Howard. Albert Hennen
Morris, David Hennen Morris. James
E Moore, Gen. William l.. CabeIl. Ed
ward j. Demarest, John Morris Rog-
ers, John NJ. Demarest. Paul Conrad,
Chapman Hyams. Louis S. Graham,
Edward L. Pinac. Robert K Thomp-
son, Joseph L. Shaw, William P.
Johnston. Jesse X. Bayliss, G. W.
Bredow, James Rea, Frank E. John
son, Henry ]. Schott, Henry L. Plum.
Abraham B. kaufman, % at $4,000,
S23O0O0
$4,000 each-Wallace Masterson
William P. Farmhouse. Tom William,
Lester X. Bayliss, 4 at $4,000, S20,-
OO0
Smaller fines-Harry w. BenderT.
son. s2.500; Oscar Hanger. $1,000:
Herman Drummer. $500; total. $4,000.
Grand total. 1854. 500.
Not Present.
kThe cases of Francis X. Fitzpatrick
of Cambridge, Mass. who is to be
fined $4,000 and John Hoag. of San
Francisco. Cal, who is to be fined
5000. did not appear in court and their
cases were set for June 21.
NoiIe Prosecuted.
Walter J. Demarest, of New Or
leans.
Stasius Meade, of Washington, D,
r. c. Hammer and H. S. Walker. of
indianapolis
The Coup de Grace.
In addition to the pleas of guilty
entered by the defendants TO indict'
ments charging conspiracy TO cause
the interstate carriage of lottery ad-
vertisements, the defendants agreed
to surrender 10 the government for
destruction all lottery books, plates
and other paraphernaIla, and, in addi-
ticn, to Immediately dispose of the
printing establishment belonging to
the Honduras National Lottery Com
pany. located at Sixth and Orange
streets. at Wilmington, Del, and ope-
rated under the name of the John NJ.
Rogers Press. where the lottery tick
cts have been printed for many years.
With these pleas { guilty and the
surrender OF all lottery material. the
Honduras Notional Lottery Company,
which is the successor of the old Lou
isiana State Lottery Company, passes
out of existence.
The Old Louisiana Lottery.
In 1864 a constitutional convention
IN Louisiana inserted in the constitu-
ton of the state a proviso to the ef-
feet that the legislature shall have
power to license the sale of lottery
tickets. and the keeping of gambling
houses" On August Il, 1858, the leg
islature of the state granted a charter
10 the Louisiana State Lottery Com
panv. The charter thus granted was
exclusive and granted a monopoly of
the lottery business to this company
for twenty-five years from January
/, 1894.
Drawing Scheme.
According to the statements issued
bv the company at that time. monthly
drawings were advertised TO take
place twelve times a year, on the
second Tuesday IN each montn; ten
OF the drawing we're ordinary draw
ings the tickets for all Of which
amounted TO $4,000 900 and the prizes
to S1.054, 500 Two of the monthly
drawings were grand extraordinary
drawings. in which the price of the
tickets for sale amounted to twice
as much as in the ordinary drawings.
and the prizes were also twice as
large and the profits twice as great.
The gross receipts of the louisiana
company were about s4,00o,0O0 per
annum and the net receipts to the
hackers and stockholders were ap-
proximately 45 per cent OF the amount
realized on the sale of tickets.
louisiana's Fight.
The charter Of the company under
its terms expired January 1, 1894, In
1890 the question of the renewal Of
the charter came before the people of
Louisiana In March, 1890, John A.
Morris, who was then the dominant
factor in the lottery company, an
nounced by letter in the newspapers
that he would apply to the legisla-
Ccentinued on Eighth FaGs)