New-York tribune., 1908-08-04
LOTTERY MEN CAUGHT
GERMAN TRADE H4RD HIT
Oscar Calm 4rrested H'hile Opening
Big Bundle of Tickets

German lotteries with extensive business in
.h's country suffered blow yesterday when the
,o,ice arrested Oscar Calm. of No. 5o4 East s7th
s,rset who they say. has been in charge of their
,rers rfons in this country. Complaints from per
sors in several cities of the East and Middle West
rst they receiving bundles Of lottery tickets
fro7, Germany. accompanied by bills made the
-ostai authorities suspicious anc for three months
.he mail to Calm G Co has been watched
7.sst week so many seizures were made by the
ostaI authorities that the collectors for the Royal
ssxauv Dukedou1 OF Lepsic and the Brunswick
,o-re-ies told their regular customers that they
co,Id not give any tickets for two or three weeks
and asked several 10 allow them to have the tickets
mailed them 10 elude the postal authorities In
rbis zsy n considerable number Of duplicate tickets
81, into this country and distributed IN place
~ those which were seized. More than a hundred
tickets for the August drawing Of the three lot
tories were found Carn's letter files when he
vas arrested
Calm was arrested by Detective Lieutenants
Ceean and WiIber last night lust after they had
rounded up two alleged con men, members Of
The CondoIr gang. There is also federal war
rant out for mis- arrest for using the mails for
fraudulent purposes.
Il is said that Calm has been tbs chief American
representative Of these German lotteries for twelve
years. ] been profitable business. one which
has allowed Calm to move in the wealthiest Ger
man sets in the city. An elderly man. he is most
popular with all the members Of the numerous
German societies which he belongs. and his wife
From Of the sales slips found by the police
Il was shown that his lottery business amounted
n Sao more s month notebook showed
that here in the city alone he had more than two
hundred and fifty clients Many OF the names
found IL his list OF those Of some
vel known German professional men of this city
EIe also had many customers in humber walks Of
Hfe for whom the lottery has even q greater
fascination than the svvindlins policy game
Calm made his headquarters at his desk in the
E-aTla arh < R-ieF sill a
70 Church street Ever since the complaints wers
first received by the postal authorities-nlost of
+be-n coming from Baltimore and Akron, Ohio
Cams mail has been carefully scrutinized When
s1,spciou became almost certainty the police and
the nosts authorities elaborated Every
s--esre5 10 bring bulky German mail for Calm ~
cr,a1r5+ies that cid appear TO be warranted.
son after the watch began II was noticed that
similar packages were passing through the mails
addressed 70 Cahn's wife and 10 his daughter Miss
Sarah Calm who lives with her father. One ~
rvo other Germans in the city also appeared to be
receiving similar packages frequently
Yesterday morning the Rotterdam got in. and tho
r4sra1 authorities found TWO Of the familiar pack
sses IN the mail Postal Inspector Hill and the
two detectives Up 10 the Church street offices
and waited for the mail be delivered The post
man about noon brought in Two packages. one ad-
dressed 10 Calm and the other 10 Adolph Brieger
The men waited a few moments. until. peerins
through the door. they saw Calm and Brtege- oper
their mail As they did the detectives rushed
IN and seized them The letter addressed TO Calm
bore { Leipsic postmark II read:
With same mail send others to following ad-
dresses. g. NJ N A H. A b Wishing that
rou have received them. yours respectfully.
WILHELM OSCAR BRUINS
Rruns : the active agent in Germany in the
three lotteries with which Calm has been con-
nerred-
When Hu1 confscated the packages he also
ss-ze5 : letter ale The desk Calm said that
this belonged WalIach. but wallsch denied IT
Letters found in II revealed. the officers the
names Of those whose initials were mentioned in
Bruns-s letter According them s. &" is
Sarah Calm: M. NJ" is Max Mergentine Of No
IS Washington street: A b is Adoiph Breiger-
while a H" they say. is A. Hesse, who keeps
saloon ~ Frankfort and William streets
N-. Hesze denied last night that he ever had
received any mail for Calm ever had any bust
ness relations with him Of any sort. He said that
he knew Calm. but merely socially as both beiohg
70 sanle n the same German societies
One OF the tickets issued by the DuchY OF
Brunswick Lottery. printed on light green paper
shows what all the tickets are like. on this Is
printed in German under the arms of the duchy;