The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1907-06-13
FAMOUS LOTTERY
ENDS ITS CAREER
Honduras companY's Promoters
Plead Guilty in Alabama.
"a PAY FINES OF s2e4,oOO
Agree to Surrender All Books and
Paraphernalia, and This Means
That the Gambling Enterprise
Has Come to an End.

Paraphernalia, and This Means
That the Gambling Enterprise
Has Come to an End.
Mobile, Ala.-With the imposition
of fines, aggregating $284,O0O, in the
Federal Court here, upon ~thirty-four
persons, the Honduras National Lot
terry Company, which the United
States Government has for fifteen
years been pursuing, passed out of
existence. The penalization of the
principals in the company and their
agents, and an order confscating GER
tain property of the company situated
in this country, marks the end Of a
stupendous and highly profitable
gambling venture, in which all OF the
chances were taken by the patrons,
The company gathered in about S4.-
100000 a year, retained forty-fve
per cent, and divided the remainder
among the prize-winners in the
scheme.
The action against the lottery pro-
moterS was taken in the court for the
Southern District of Alabama, before
Judge Toulmin, and resulted in the
entering of wholesale pleas Of guilty,
the charge being conspiracy to cause
the interstate carriage of lottery adj
vert.sements. In pleading guilty,
the defendants agreed to surrender
for destruction all lottery books,
plates and other pa~raphernalia, and,
also, to dispose of the printing es-
adjustment of the company at Will
mington, Del, known as the John NJ.
Rogers Press, where the lottery tick
cts have for years been printed.
Fines of $4,000 each were as
sessed against Dave Hennen Morris
and Alfred Hennen Morris, of New
Orleans and New York City; w. c.
Henderson, of Brooklyn, was fined
$4,000; Harry w. Henderson, of
Brooklyn, was fined $500; Oscar
Hanger, of Hoboken, $500, while
fines ranging from $4,000 to $500
wer assessed against the following:
William H. Farmhouse, James Rea, G..
w. Bredow, William P Johnston,
Louis c.. Graham, Edward L. Pirac,
Sr., Chapman Hyams, Paul Conrad,
Demarest, all of New Orleans; John
h1OIIAS IOSStS, J0oSS ~. DdyIAS
and Lester K Baylis, Of Viii
mington; James S. Moire, Chi
cago; General w L. Cabell, Dallas;
Robert K. Thompson, Mobile. JOS
eph l.. Shaw, Tom Williams and
Henry L. Plum Washington, D. c.;
Herman Bruner, St. Louis; Frank 2.
Johnson, Hartford; A 3. Kaufman,
Detroit; Harry J. Schott, Baltimore;
Wallace Mastersony Savannah Fran
els K. Fitzpatrick and John Hoag.
The Honduras National Lottery
Company was originally the Louis
lana State Lottery Company, a duly
tegaIized institution under the State
Constitution, with a charter running
for twenty-five years-to 1894. John
a.. Morris, of New Orleans, was the
dominant factor. At the expiration
Of the charter the State declined to
renew it, although offered $~1,350,90O
r year. The company then began
business at Puerto CorteZ, Honduras,
as the Honduras National Lottery
Company, having twelve drawing a
year-ten for each-of which about
$4,000, 900 of tickets were sold, and
two grand drawings, for each OF
which double that sum-, approximate
Ey, was received for the sale of tick
cts, while the prizes were also
doubled.