The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1907-06-26
FAMOUS LOTTERY
ENDS ITS CAREER
Honduras Comnany's Promoters
PLEAD Guilty in Alabama.
81 PAY FINES OF S284,o0O

Agree to Surrender All Books and
Paraphernalia, and This Means
That the Gambling Enterprise
Has Come to an End.
Mobile, Ala.-With the imposition
of fines, aggregating $284,000, in the
Federal Court here, upon thirty-fouI
persons, the Honduras National Lot
terry Company, which the United
States Government has for ffteer
years been pursuing, passed out Of
existence. The penalization of the
principals in the company and their
agents, and an order confiscating Ger,
tain property of the company situated
in this country, marks the end Of q
stupendous and highly profitable
gambling venture, in which all of the
chances were taken by the patrons.
The company gathered in about 81.
100000 a year, retained forty-f1ve
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 ad-
vertisements. In pleading guilty,
the defendants agreed to surrender
for destruction all lottery books,
plates and other paraphernalia, and,
also, to dispose of the printing es-
tablishment of the company at Will.
mington, Del, known as the John M.
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 $4,000; Oscar
Hanger, of Hoboken, $500, while
fines ranging from $4,000 to $500
were assessed against the following:
William H. Farmhouse, James Rea, G.
w. Bredow, William P. Johnston.
Louis C.. Graham, Edward L. Pinac.
Frank L. Howard, Albert Baldwin.
ST., Chapman Hyams, Paul Conrad,
John M. Demarest and Edward ].
Demarest, all Of New Orleans; John
Morris Rogers. Jesse K. Baylis
and Lester K. Baylis, of Viii.
mington; James S. Moire, Chi.
cago; General w. L.. Cabell, Dallas;
Robert X. Thompson, Mobile; Jos.
eph L. Shaw, Tom Williams and
Henry l.. Plum, Washington, D. c.;
Herman Bruner, st. Louis; Frank E.
Johnson, Hartford; A. B. Kaufman.
Detroit: Harry J. Schott, Baltimore;
Wallace Masterson, Savannah; Fran.
els x. Fitzpatrick and John Hoag.
The Honduras National Lottery
Company was originally the Louis
lana State Lottery Company, a duly
legalized 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 1t, although offered s~1,350,000
3 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
100000 of tickets were. sold, and
two grand drawings, for each OF
which double that sum, approximate
Iy, was received for the sale Of tick.
cts, while the prizes were also
doubled.