The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1907-03-30
FABULOUS
sums WERE
REktt;ttt;llsss,
The Honduras Lottery Company's
Receipts Were Over Mill
ion Dollars a Month
BUT us. GOVERNMENT
BROKE INTO GAME
Officers Indicted at Mobile Come
Up for Trial There Beginning
Monday
BUT US. GOVERNMENT
BROKE. INTO GAME

Associated Press to The Dvenlng Times.
Washington, D. c., March 30.-A spe-
cial session of the United States grand
jury will convene at Mobile, Ala, Mon
day to take up the prosecution Of the
men indicted in connection with the
recent raids on the Offices of the Hon
duras Lottery company. Among those
arrested for allege connection with the
illegal concern and who will probably
appear at the hearing In Mobile are
G. w. Brado, James Rea, E. ]. De-
marest and w. ]. Demarest OF New
Orleans; e. l.. Penac, L. 8. Graham
and r. K. Thompson of Mobile; Cen
eral w. L. Cabell of Dallas; Wallace
Masterson of Savannah; A. B. Kauf-
man of Detroit; Nathan Jacobs, Will
lam Lay and Isaac Rasmussen of Chi
cago, and G. Donovan, F. T. Ftzpat-
rick, Ben McElroy and George Cole of
Boston. Indictments have also been
returned against alleged agents of the
company in other cities throughout
the country and all have been cited
to appear at Mobile, which was the
headquarters of the concern in this
country.
The prosecution is in charge of Uni
ted States District Attorney w H.
Armbrecht of Mobile, who will likely
be assisted by District Attornel Nields
of Wilmington, Del, who has been ac-
tive in lottery prosecutions Tor some
time. Mr.. Armhrecht is one of the
youngest district attorneys in the coun-
try, being barely past 80, but his past
record is such as to give the WASH
ington officials confidence that the
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Quoted. It is probable that the officials
agree to quit the business forever,
sentence will be eliminated and only a
fine imposed.
Secret service agents, under the di-
rection of Chief Wilkie. have been at
work collecting evidence against the
Honduras Lottery company for the
past twelve months, but the prosecu-
ton was brought to focus by the
raiding of the offices and printing plant
year and the subsequent arrests of
J. Demarest is president and E. J.
Demarest general manager of the COM
pany. Both are prominent citizens of
ANO" vi AAOnAo duu AOpuIOU W UO AhCh
of great wealth. The biggest sensa-
arrest of General w. l.. Cabell of Dali
officer and commander-in-chief of the
Trans-Mississippi department OF the
veteran organization.
The Honduras Lottery company was
the successor of the Louisiana Lottery
company, which was put out of busi-
ness in 1892. The new concern Sc
cured charter from the government
of Honduras on the agreement that it
should receive $1,000 quarterly during
the life of the charter and in addition
per cent of the gross receipts. One
hundred thousand dollars annually has
been AIDED to the Honduranean treas
ury through this arrangement. The
official headquarters of the company
was at Puerto Cortez, Honduras where
dt owned a handsome pavilion. In ad-
dition, the concern had offices in New
Orleans, printing plant in Mobile
and distributing Office at. Bay st.
Louis, Miss. The last drawing was
held on January ~ and the last big
prize of $4,000 was won by New Or
leans steamship captain.
1t Is stated that the receipts OF the
company during it's existence have
been close to $1,000,000 a month, and
dividends amounting to 4 per cent on
the capitalization of $10,000,000 have
been paid to stockholders. Agencies
were operated in all the larger cities
of the country and the receipts of some
of them were fabulous. The Chicago
agent admits that his business aver
aged 100000 month. At San Fran
cisco, New York and Boston the re-
ceipts were about $4,000 month,
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