The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1907-06-13
DEATH BLOW TO LOTTERY
Prominent Men Pay Fines Aggregat
ing $3.50, eco.

ing S259,2Co
Mobile, Ala. Especially II Judge
Toulmin Tuesday imposed fines IN
the cases of defendants who in the
court for the Southern district Of
Alabama entered pleas of guilty to
an Indictment charging conspiracy
to cause the interstate carriage OF
lottery advertisements. In addition
to the pleas of guilty, the defendants
agreed to surrender to the govern
ment for destruction all lottery
books, plates and other parapherna-
liza and also Immediately to dispose
of the printing establishment OF the
Honduras National Lottery Company,
Sixth and Orange Streets, Whining
ton, Del, operated under the name
of John M. Rogers Press, where the
lottery tickets have been printed for
years. The fines aggregate $685.
200.
Following are the defendants:
William p. Farmhouse, James Rea,
.C. w. Bredow, william p. Johnston,
Louis C. Graham, Edward I. Pinach,
David Hennen Morris, Alfred Hen
men Morris, Frank L. Howard, Albert
Baldwin, Sr., Chapman Hyams, Paul
Conrad, John Demarest, Edward j..
Dcmarest, all of New Orleans.
John Morris Rogers, Jesse X. Bay
lis, Lester X. Baylis, Wilmington,
Del.
James S. Moire, Chicago, III.
Harry w. Henderson, w. 9. Hen
derson, BROOKLYN. ~ Y.
Gen. w. l.. Abel, Dallas, Tex
Robert X. Thompson, Mobile.
Joseph l.. Shaw, Tom William,
Henry L. Plum, Washington, D. c.
Herman Brunner, st. Louis.
Oscar Hanger, Hoboken, n. j.
Frank e. Johnson, Hartford
A. B. Kaufman, Detroit, Mich.
Harry j. Schott, Baltimore.
Wallace Masterton, Savannah, Ga.
Plant in Wilmington, Del.
The charges against Walter j. De-
marest, Stasius Meade and Hammer
and Walker were nolle pressed. The
cases against John Hoag and Francis
X. Fitzpatrick were continued, al
though fines were named. All others
indicted were fined.
With the pleas of guilty and the
surrender of all lottery material, the
Honduras National Lottery Company,
which is the successor of the old
Louisiana State Lottery Company,
passed out of existence, ending q long
struggle of the federal authorities.
The government first attempted
to break up the lottery business on
the passage of the act of 1877 for
bidding the transmission of lottery
matter by mail. In 1895 this was
supplemented by the act forbidding
the interstate carriage of lottery
tickets or advertisements of lottery
matter. In 1903 the Supreme Court,
by vote of to a, upheld the con-
stitutionality of the latter enactment.
Since the decision the lottery tick
cts we're printed at the lottery COM
panies' plant in Wilmington, Del,
and taken as personal baggage by
messengers from Wilmington to New
York where they were stored in
warehouses. From time to time the
tickets were taken also as personal
baggage by messenger to Washing
ton, where the packages were re-
checked to various cities. The Off
GERS and agents of the company oper-
ated under assumed names and a
complete code was also used. The
drawings were held monthly at Puer-
to Cortez, Honduras, and lists of the
winning numbers were printed in
Mobile, Ala, and from there sent to
state agents throughout the country
The printing establishment at VIII.
mington was raided in the spring OF
1906 and plates from which the
tickets were printed, together with
considerable matter relating to the
lottery business seized. The govern
ment was not at that time able tC
establish a conspiracy case, but in
January, 1907, the printing estab'
lishment at Mobile was raided and
certain packages which had beer
shipped from that city were seized
at Atlanta, Ca, after they hat
crossed the state line.
With the evidence thus obtained
the government secured indictments
against those who entered a plea o.
guilty, together with few others.