Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1907-11-21

LOTTERY sWINDLE.
Most important Lottery Exposure
In Recent Years.
Many Wealthy and Prominent Per.
sous Are Likely To BE Caught IN
Drag Net by Secret Service.

sous Are Likely To BE Caught in
Drag Net by Secret Service.
The biggest lottery swindle in the
United States which has been run
ming for more than twenty years with
headquarters in Chicago. was expos
ed Wednesday night by arrests in that
and other cities of the country. The
United States secret service claims
that the promoters of the scheme
have made millions of dollars and
that there are big men behind II who
can be reached by the prosecution of
the men now under arrest.
Under the name of the Old Reli-
able Guaranty Loan company, the
company maintained nicely appointed
Offices at 225 Dearborn street, III
washington street, and ~ Sehrman
street and large printing establish
ment known as the Martin Fountain
Printing Company at 26 Randolph
street. Secret service agents Harry T.
Donague, Otto +. Klinke and Law
renee Richey. who have engineered
all the big lottery exposures of recent
years raided all four of these estab-
lishments and obtained thousands of
tickets, lottery paraphernalia, checks
and returns from agents. and the
plates from which the tickets were
printed.
ID. II. Jones, alias d. H Kissam
who has lived in expensive style at
the Great Northern Hotel and we'll
known about the city, was arrested
as the head of the concern. He has
been in charge OF the concern since
It's inception in 1886, and Is said by
the secret service men to have acted
as the representative and go between
OF the man higher up. He has also
grown tremendously wealthy out OF
the profits Of the concern.
John Z. Miner. of w. Minter G.
Co, was arrested as a partner In the
concern. Miner claims. TO be in the
real estate business.
Warrants were issued for Miss
Cora Green, the confidential secre-
tary of Jones, and Walter Schimbey.
the bookkeeper. At midnight. Jones.
Miner and Miss Green were arraign-
ed before United States Commission
er Foote
George r. Geisler. the St. Louis
agent of the concern, was arrested in
that city and large number of lot
terry tickets and records confiscated
Frank Falkner, agent at Fort Wayne.
was arrested by Agent Donohue.
Charles and Royal Hamman were ar
rested at Indianapolis by Agent
Klink and John T MARYLAND was ar
rested at McKeesport. Pa. All were
held under heavy bond.
The secret service men from the
records they have obtained expect to
make more than 200 arrests in vari-
Gus cities in the country. An attempt
also Will be made to involve the ex-
press companies as agnts or accom-
plices. under the federal act forbid
ding lotteries. Commissioner Foote
held Jones without bail. Jones is
feeble.
Under it's various names. the lot
terry has been conducted in the regu-
lar lottery manner, except that the
process has been all out of proportion
to the risk and the commissions have
been very heavy, putting hundreds of
thousands of dollars into the pock-
cts of the promoters yearly. 1t is
believed that even with the heavy
PERCENTAGE in their favor, the lot
terry managers did not live up to their
promises to their dupes and failed
to share receipts as advertiser.