The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1908-08-04
LOTTERY AGENT ARRESTED
UNCLE SAMiTAKES UP 4 GERMAN!
WHO, WAS THRIVING.
oscar Calm. the Post once inspectors Say,
Has Been Doing q business OF $780,
600 q Year In Tickets for tho Last
Dozen Iears-Had 8 Accounts.

oscar Calm. the Post Once inspectors Say
Has Been Doing q business OF R8O !,
o a Yea In Tickets for tho Last
Dozen lears-Had $50 Accounts
Oscar Calm, a. well dressed, dignifed
looking German. who gave his address a.
6oi East Eighty-seventh street. was arrested
In the offices Of Wallach d Brieger, at 80;
Church street, yesterday afternoon. II,
has had desk room there under the nam,
of Calm d Co. The charge was selling
lottery tickets.
Post Office Inspector H. g.. Hill said las
night that Calm was the head Of the
business in this country Of selling German
lottery tickets and that he had been con
Quoting the business for over twelve year,
according to his books.
The arrest Of Calm was brought about
through a letter sent TO the post office au.
thorities by a man In Akron. Ohio. who
had tired of receiving tickets and bills fol
tickets which he had never ordered.
Inspector Hill set about watching Calm
after be heard from the man In Akron and
found that on the first of each month Calm
&sCo. received a heavy mail from Germany
It was determined to act when this mouths
maD arrived and yesterday Inspector Hill
and Detective Wi1ber went to Cahns office
and asked to see him. They found him
at q desk which was covered with foreign
mail Without any further formalities
Hill seized the mail and then told Calm
that he had a Federal warrant for him
Calm prot ested against the seizure of his
mail. but when the inspector asked il he
claimed the mail he -desisted. lie was
looked up at POLICE Headquarters, charged
with selling lottery tickets and with using
the mails illegally.
last night by the police and the post Office
authorities gave them the first intimation,
they say. Of the extent of Calm & Co.'s
operations. According to Inspector Hill
the first letter they opened read as follows:
With the same mail l send others to fol-
lowing addresses-S. c., NJ. NJ. A.. H.. A. b.
WILHELM OSCAR BRUINS.
Br., 2s-1-os.
The inspector found letters addressed
to Alexander Hesse. William and Frank
fort streets; Mrs. Sarah Calm, 6O4 East
E~ghty-ssventh street; Mrs. Max Mergen-
time, 26s Washington street, and Adolph
Brieger. These names, it will be seen, cor
respond with the initials in the above letter.
Other letters which were found contained
about LIS lottery tickets Of the Dukedom
Of Brunswig-Luneburg. Royal Saxony lot
terry and the Brunswick lottery. These tick
cts were signed BY William Oscar Bruins.
chief collector, Bremen. Letters were also
found ready for mailing to various per-
sons containing tickets and bills.
According to Inspector Hill the books of
Calm d Co. show that the firm was doing
a business Of about 5000 a month and
that there were $50 running accounts. In
spectorxHil said that most Of the business
was done in the West and that practically
all Of 1t was done with Germans. He said
that Calm was In the habit Of making semi
annual trips about the country, leaving his
daughter to run the business here. Calm
declined to make any statement last night,
but said that he would defend himself in
court and could show that he had violated
no law in force as to lottery tickets.
The Federal statutes provide that any
persons who shall cause to be brought into
the United States from abroad lottery
tickets for the purpose Of disposing Of
them or ~of-causing them to be carried by
the United States mails shall be punishable
In the first Instance by imprisonment for
not more than two years or q fine OF not
more than 81 600. or both. After the first
offence the punishment shall be imprison-
ment only,