The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 16, 1895, Page 24

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, JUNE 16, 1895. ND LOTTERY FRAUDS, THE LOTTERY LAW A Amenable Under the Penal Code. | MEANING OF THE LAW. The City Flooded With Coun- terfeit Tickets and Fake Companies. ADVERTISEMENTS OF SHAMS. Floor-Walkers, Managers and Con- tractors Sell Tickets to Thelr Employes. Section 322 of the Penal Code of Cali- fornia: Every person who aids or assists either by printing, writing, advertising, pub- Jishing or otherwise in setting up, man- aging or drawing any lottery, or in sell- ing or disposing of any tickets, chance or share therein is guilty of a misde- meanor. . This is the law of the State of California on the subject of lotteries. Possibly a bet- ter law might be framed, but until it has been the present law would seem to be adequate, or, at least, a good working law, under which everything that may be done to suppress the pernicious traffic in lottery tickets and lottery advertisements should at least be attempted. In the opinion of one of the best posted lawyers on the lottery-law question in 8an Francisco, the present law, as embodied in the section quoted, is broad enough to in- clude within its inhibition and condemna- tion the advertising of the drawings of lot. teries, such as appears in many of the daily newspapers. It has been decided—as District Attorney Barnes pointed out in his interview in vesterday's Carl—that advertising the RESULT of a past drawing is not contrary to law, while the advertising of a FUTURE drawing is unlawful. But this decision, to say the least, was very narrow. The Louisiana Lottery Company, for example, js a CONTINUING lottery scheme, and the section quoted says that ‘‘any person who AIDS OR ASSISTS, either by PRINT- ING, WRITING, ADVERTISING, OR | PUBLISHING, etc., is guilty of a misde- meanor. The language would seem to be plain enough to one mot seeking for a loophole whereby the guilty may escape, and when | jt is viewed in the light of section 4 of the Penal Code, would seem to give the courts ample jurisdiction in the matter. Section | 4 reads: { The rule of the common law, that penal | statutes are to be strictly construed, has no | epplication to this code. AIll its provisions & are to be construed according to the fair fmport of their terms, with a view to effect its objects and to promote justice. Apvlying the rule laid down in this sec- tion to the words and the spirit of section 322—constructing and interpreting section 392 in the manner laid down by section 4 of the Penal Code—there can be no doubt, declares the eminent legal authority re- ferred to, but that the newspapers which advertise drawings of lotteries that are continuous are violating the law. Surely, to the layman of intelligence, whose only motive is to uphold the laws of his State, this view of the lottery question would seem to be both good law and good common sense. Surely, a Judge and a jury, actuated by no other desires than to uphold the law as they find it, could gcarcely refuse to convict under this law were the facts of the case beyond dispute, or past the proverbial “reasonable doubt.” It is doubtful, too, whether a court, bent on finding a way out for the accused, conld be kept in bounds by any law that man can frame. After all, the matter rests largely upon the disposition of the proper suthorities, it would seem, and behind this disposition lies public sentiment on the question. It need not be difficult to en- force a law that has the encouragement and backing of a strong public sentiment, while if the sentiment be lacking it will always be difficult to enforce the law. Just at present there isan awakening of public opinion on this baneful traffic in lottery tickets and advertisements, and the time would seem to be ripe for some determined move in the matter on the part of the powers that are. It is more than likely, too, from present indications, that the anti-lottery agitations will result in a thorough testing of the existing statutes, not only as regards the news- paper advertising of lotteries, but also of the real or fancied immunity from the lottery law under which the telegraph companies now accept business from the lotteries and their agents. The law reads that “Every person who AIDS or ASSISTS * * * jn getting up, MANAGING or DRAWING * * * or in BELLING or DISPOSING of any tickets, etc., is guilty of a misdemeanor.” Messages conveyed to and from lottery companies and their agents in this State over the telegraphic wires surely aid and assist both in the management of the lot- tery company and in the disposing of its tickets, or else the English language is at fault. The bare truth is that lotteries could not be conducted—now that the mails and the express company is closed to their messages—were it not for the friendly offices of the telegraph companies. Aside from the telegraph, there is no practicable manner of communication be- tween the lottery company and its agents, and without this medium of communica- tion the lottery companies could not carry on their pernicious traffic in this City and State. Itis the opinion of several well-posted attorneys who were interviewed yesterday that the telegraph companies could be made amenable to the existing State law concerning lotteries. THE LOTTERY FRATUDS. More Than Half the Tickets Are Coun- terfeits and Many Companies Are Pure Fakes. Aside from closing the columns of other- wise reputable newspapers to lottery ad- vertisements, perhaps nothing would have 80 great a tendency to discourage the barmful traffic in lottery tickets as the general knowledge that fully 50 per cent of the tickets now on the market and in the hands of the agents and peddlers of this City are counterfeits of the genuine. Per- haps as many as one-third of the remain- ing half of all the lottery tickets sold here are those of fake companies. And this is not the statement of one who guesses at things, but the calm and dis- passionate utterance of a man accustomed 0 calculate the full weight of all his words; | City limit: | cult to convict. of a man, in truth, whose chief character- istic from long years of official service is that of reticence—the Chief of Police. “From the knowledge of facts brought to this department by the officers detailed on that work,” said Chief Crowley yesterday afternoon, “I can say unhesitatingly that about half the lottery tickets sold in this City are rank counterfeits. “Why, we have caught the rascals time and again, red-handed, with the plates and presses and the printed and hali- printed tickets in their possession. In the last seven years how many lottery tickets do you suppose we have confiscated in this City? Just about half a miilion. I think that is the exact figures—500,000—but you can get the figures for yourself in the prop- erty-room. “Now, the lottery business is bad enough in itself, but the worst of it is that the buyer of a lottery ticket takes even chances in getting a counterfeit ticket, upon which he could not collect a cent should the number win even from a company that pretends to pay its advertised prizes. Now, when you add the even chances of being cheated on a ticket to the very small chance that a man has of winning even from a reliable company (if there are such) you can see what an unequal thing the traffic is on the ticket buyer. “It’s playing good money against unfair odds. You have about one chance in 10,000 to win. It's not only a criminal business, but a foolish one—that of buying lottery tickets.” It is undoubtedly a fact that within the past few months the Police Department has been makine even more than ordinary efforts to stamp out the traffic in this City and to drive the peddlers and agents out of the business, or at all events beyond the “And it has been no easy task,” says Chief Crowley, *‘because when the fine has been paid the rascals go off to some other part of the City and conduct their business. It keeps us busy following them around from one nest to the other. And they | don’t mind the fine imposed by the law. he business is profitable and they can afford to pay an occasional or even a fre- quently imposed fine. “I think the best thing that could be done under the circumstances is to have the law changed so as to make the penalty for selling lottery tickets an offense pun- ishable only by imprisonment. It need not be for a long term—that would compli- cate matters and make it still more diffi- But these peddlers and agents would not like to serve from, say five to thirty days in the County Jail, and a few convictions would drive them out of | the business for good.” One who takes the pains to inquire a lit- tle will find any number of cases where the holders of lottery tickets who fondly thought, from the published reports in the daily newspapers, that they had won large sums of money, learned atthe last moment, when they went to cash their tickets, that the bit of printed paper they held was utterly worthless. There is the case of the poor old woman on Howard street, near Eighth. Every- body who is posted about such things knows how she was defrauded. She makes only a bare living by peddling matches and lead pencils. A smooth-tongued peddler of lottery tickets, armed with glaring circulars and | posters telling about the great wealth that people gain by investing sums of a dollar and less, induced her to spend all her say- ings, amounting to nearly $5, in lottery tickets. Among the tickets she purchased was one of the same number that was adver- tised in the newspapers as having drawn a portion of the capital prize. She was happy for a day when she read the evening paper. In the morning the papers corrob- orated her good fortune still more—or seemed to do so. But when she went to the bank and sought to cash her ticket they calmly showed her that the real win- ner on the number she held was a resident of some ether city. Her ticket was a coun- terfeit, and, of course, the agent who sold it to her never appeared again. There are hundreds of cases like this. And tnere are thousands of tickets sold in this City containing the names of com- panies that never had an existence in reality, never had a drawing, never did anything more in the lottery line, in fact, except to delude the young and the foolish into buying their fake tickets. WHO CASH TICKETS. Some of the Ramifications of the Trafic. Shopgirls and Employes Forced to Buy. Occasionally—very occasionally, in truth, despite the glowing reading notices of lucky winnings published in the news- papers—holders of lottery tickets in this City do make winnings. Indeed, a company that expects to con- tinue in the business of robbing the young and the gnilelessof a given community must occasionally part with a little of its illegal wealth. But usually the winners are friends of the men who manage the concern, and a large percentage of the re- puted winning is, of course, returned to the lottery company. There are cases known to every man about town of men and women who have been paid to represent that they won large sums of money from this or that lottery that never even had a drawing. There is the case of the Kearny-street saloon-keeper, whose place is opposite a certain cigar- store not more than a mile north of Market street, who is known to have posed as the winner of a $30,000 prize from the San Do- mingo lottery—a fake concern that never had a drawing, nor even more than the sembiance of a real existence. The news- pavers published long accounts about the lucky winning, and for a time even some of the men about town were beguiled into buying tickets from that saloon-keeper. But soon the truth got out, and now any- body who knows what is going on in town will tell you all’about it. Of course the rascals were very clever in their work, and covered up their tracks so carefully that they leit no legal evidence behind them. Hence it is unsafe to mention names. But the tale is undoubtedly true, and oneof the men concerned in the deal is very well known in this City. And every dealer in legitimate lottery tickets will tell you that the San Domingo com- pany is a fraud from top to bottom, though it has netted several small fortunes to one or two men already rich. But about the tickets that do draw—say an occasional Louisiana ticket—who cashes them? The banks of this City. Not all of the banks, of course, but a good many of them, and among the lot one or two of the best known and most reputable banks in this City. This is truth. Ask any of the peddlers how you are to get your money in case your ticket wins. He will name the banks that will cash the tickets for 20 per cent of the amount won. Some have recently cut under the rate, and tickets can be cashed (by the[ knowing ones) even as low as 10 per cent of the winning. You take your ticket to the paying-teller. He is an expert, and, besides being able to tell you whether your ticket is a counterfeit, he is provided with alist showing in what cities the winning tickets were sold. If all is well, and you are willing to pay the tolls, the paying- teller will hand over the cash in exchange for your receipt and your signature on the back of the ticket. Yes, some of the banks of this city— some of the biggest and most influential of them—will cash genuine lottery tickets. Surely they are amenable to the Penal Code of this State, or could be made amen- able to it. They are assisting in the man- agement of a lottery. And who sells the tickets? First of all the regularly appointed agents of the companies. They deal di- rectly with the companies and are person- ally commissioned by the companies. In the City Directory and on the sign over their doors is usually the single word : BROKERS. They change their address very frequent- ly, so frequently, in truth, that the police often lose track of them for a time. They are well-to-do men. They patronize the prizefights. They wear good clothes and 20 to the barbers every day. They toil not nor spin, yet champagne is their toddy and the best hotels and cafes in town en- joy their patronage. They do not sell single tickets. Itis their business to furnish tickets to the ped- | dlers. Who are the peddlers? There is one in nearly every barber-shop, is nearly every restaurant, several of them in every hotel. They are streetcar drivers and conductors; they are tobacconists, newsdealers, wandering men and women who sometimes peddle pencils or matches on the side; they are clerks in dry-goods houses, floorwalkers, department foremen; they are sub-contractors and the foremen under them—their name is legion in San Francisco. A policeman, very naturally, finds it dif- ficult to purchase a ticket, but any one else in the wide world who happens to be in San Francisco and happens to have the | price of a ticket can very readily acquire | one. | The worst traffic is that of the floor- walkers and department overseers in the big dry good and notion houses. Every em- ploye must buy of them or incur their dislike. Cashgirls who earn $2 and $3 a week are forced to buy lottery tickets or lose their places. Of course there are some stores where the proprietors are so vigilant of this abuse that it seldom grows very great. There are also some department heads who are above lottery-ticket selling, but these are the exception. A little investigation by any one who doubts this statement will soon convince them that the picture is not overdrawn. In truth, the limit of a news- paper article will not permit even the full case to be stated. No one is forced to buy a lottery ticket. That is true. But the salesgirl or the cash- girl who wants to hold her place must be | on good terms with the person at the head | of her department. It is the exception rather than the rule when this person, man or woman, does not deal in lottery tickets. 1t is so with the day laborer. He wants to please his boss. There are a good many idle men who would gladly take his job at the price of a few lottery tickets every month. 8o the men who have the job buy when often their families need the money more than the rascals who conduct the lotteries. And a large percentage of these tickets are counterfeits. Who ever heard, even in the newspaper lottery advertisements, of a cashgirl drawing a prize in a lottery ? Yet the cashgirls buy. SOME OF THE FRATUDS. ¥ake Lottery Concerns That Exist Only for the Purpose of Selling Worthless Tickets. Perhaps the biggest fake lottery concern that ever came into this City was the San Domingo Lottery fraud. It never had a drawing, but it hassold perhaps a qnarter of a million dollars’ worth of tickets in the past few years, and is still operating here. The knowing ones do not patronize it any more. No gambler would think of buying a San Domingo ticket. Ask one. But the people who buy lottery tickets are, alas, not all gamblers, or knowing ones. A man well known in this City is said to have brought the San Domingo Company here. They have no charter at San Do- mingo, but they make a pretense of hay- ing an office address there—but never a drawing there or elsewhere. H. W. Earle & Co. are the agents for the San Domingo. They were formerly located at 234 Kearny sireet. But they are fleeting mortals, Earle & Co. When Chief Crowley’s men learned their residence they quickly moved. They have moved very often in the last six months, The real men behind the San Domingo Com- | pany in this City did not appear on the scene until rather recently, when one of the men bolted with some of the boodle. Then the names were bandied about the street, and some people were surprised at the prominence of ther. There is the Fox fake. Even the very young and uninitiated know that this con- cern is a fraud of the first water without even the pretense of a drawing. E. Fox & Co. the concern is styled. It has or had officesin the Columbian business block. It sells ticketsonly to the very green. A man named Lloyd is behind it, but he goes by the name of Frost here. In Kansas City he was fined $1000 for vagrancy in order to drive him out of town. He claims now that his lotiery headquarters are located in Kansas City. But the Police Department of that city has quite another story to tell. He advertises, like the San Domingo fake, prizes as high as $50,000. They might just as well say $50,000,000 and have done with it. That would be as near to the truth. Then there is the Montana fraud that operates here to some extent. There's a tobacconist on East street, near Clay, who can tell you something about the Montana fake. Inone month the concern cleared over $15,000 in this State. The prizes are yet to be distributed, though several peo- ple in this City hold little slips of paper that they paid good money for and which should entitle them to quite neat fortunes. They will never get a cent. The Montana is not so well known as Fox’s and the S8an Domingo, but it is all the more dangerous because of that. And the Spanish-American—and there are more of the frauds than can be told about here—is another of the fake lot- teries. Their sole business is to rob the unsuspecting out of quarters and halves and whole dollars. Drawings, prizes! The words have no meaning to the Spanish- American concern, except in their circu- lars. This fake had offices in the Flood building until the CaLy began its anti- lottery crusade. Then they moved. The Little Mexican is another fraud in WE ARE New Arrivals. 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They have been arrested several times already, but could easily afford to pay their fines and go back to hoodwinking people who want to get rich without working. There are so many of those kinds of people inthis world that these kind of villains prosper in spite of all the warnings of the police and the newspapers. Now, if you count up alt these fraudulent companies, add a dozen more of the same kind of concerns to the number, and then consider that one-half of the tickets pur- porting to entitle the holders to chances in the genuine lotteries are counterfeits, you can appreciate what odds one. is playing against when one starts out to get a thou- sand dollars for two bits. MONEY FOR THE OITY. An Opinion of Attorney-General Fitz- gerald Sets Officials Thinking. The recently expressed opinion of At- torney-General Fitzgerald that the Assess- ors of interior counties are entitled to 6 per cent commission on personal property col- lected for this State has caused consider- able commotion amony city officials. The Assessor in San Francisco is collect- ing taxes for the first time this year under the new revenue law. In the Attorney- General’s opinion, he would thus be en- titled to the 6 per cent commission. The only thing in the way is the fact that As- sessor Siebe is paid a salary. Hence, it is argued, that the 6 per cent commission g:.\tid by the State will go directly to the ity. The portion of personal property taxes collected in this (giy is stated as between $300,000 and $350,000 per annum. Six per cent of this sum would amount to about $20,000. 1f the City could recover this sum for, say, twenty years past, it would amount to the tidy sum of between $300,060 and $400,000, an amount quite sufficient to satisfy all demands of cregitors of the City. ——————— Concert for Gustave Rowan. The Scheel Orchestra of sixty-five pieces will give a concert at Metropolitan Temple on Thursday evening, June 20, in aid of Gustave Rowan, one of the Colima survivers, and for- merly a member of the orchestra. The follow- inlg programme will be given: uneral march of the ‘“Eroica Symphonia,” L.von Beethoven: overture, “The Fiying Dutch- man,” R. Wagner; largo, J. Haydn; “Les Pre- ludes,” F. Liszt; overture of “Egmoni;." L.von Beethoven; “Deams of the Ocean,’ Gungl; Siegfried’s “Rheinfahrt,” R. Wagner; ballet music, “Coppelia,” Leo Delibes. ————— Special Baggage Notice. Round-trip transfer tickets on sale at re duced rates at our office oNLY. One trunk, round trip, 50 cents; single trip, 35 cents. Morton Special Delivery. 31 Geary street, 408 Taylor street and Qakland ferry depot.* ——————————— A Bicycle Dispute. InChicago John H. Breckenridge sought to take his bicycle to his office in the Dearborn building, but the janitor would not permit him the lottery world, It was started by three sure-thing gamblers and confidence men, who robbed the unsuspecting out of a good deal of money. But they couldn’t keep to do so, saying it ought to go to & stable. Breckenflfln’lm's m::‘t.he prspriamr of the building for damages and asks the court to fi:xsan i8 right to stable his silent steed in ce, SERVIANS MAKE MERRY, Celebration of Their National Holiday at Schuetzen Park To-Day. Picturesque Costumes, Muslc and Dancing Under the Green- wood Tree. The California contingent of the quon- dam subjects of youthful King Alexander of Servia will enjoy themselves at a picnic at the California Schuetzen Club Park to- | day. It will be the tenth annual outing of | the Servian and Montenegrin Literary and | Benevolent Society. The attractions will consist of the national dance by six Serviansin costume, music by Servian National Costume. the Servian band and the distribution of 110 prizes. That there will be reminis- cences without number of life in the little country beyond the Atlantic goes without saying, and it is equally sure that the parallel which Servian-Americans are proud of making, between their native and adopted countries, will be drawn as usual. The outing comes a day late, for the cele- bration of one of the national holidays ‘which commemorates the battle of Kosovo, | death very keenly. memorable for the slaying of 200,000 Turks, among them Murat, the Sultan of Turkey, who fell at the hands of Servia’ Washington, Milosh Obilich. The society is fifteen years old and has a membership of 200 in and about San Fran- cisco. It has a fund of $8000, used solely for the benefit of sick members, who are al- lowed $10 a week during the period of sick- ness, and when they pay the final debt of nature, $62 for burial expenses. The society has given picnics at Belmont, San Rafael and Schuetzen Club parks, which were al- walys well attended. The officers of the Servian and Monte- negrin Literary and Benevolent Society are: P. L. Vucanovich, president; Frank de Curtoni, vice-president; Stephen Gerunovich, treasurer; Lazar Churich, recording secretary, and George A. Dabovich, financial secretary. The officers and committees in charge of to-day’s picnic are: Peter Popovich, marshal; committee on ar- rangements—F. de Curtoni, John Sepetich, L. Churich, G. Germanovich and J. Spaic! floor committee—John E. Joly, Samuel Martinoyich, John Glavinovich and.N. Obradovich; C. L. Antoniola, floor manager. Boats will leave Tiburon ferry at the foot of Market street at 9:30 and 11 A. »r. and 1:30 and 3:30 P. M. A special train will leave the park at 6:30 p. M. HIS INJURIES FATAL. Thomas M. Scott, Driver of the Receiv- ing Hospital Ambulance, Is Dead. Thomas M. Scott, the driver of the Re- ceiving Hospital ambulance, died at his father’s resiaence, 1213 Union street, yes- terday morning. On Monday last Scott had a call to the Sutro Baths with the ambulance. While turning the vehicle there one of the horses shied, capsizing it. Scott jumped to the ground and the vehicle fell and rolled over him. His skull was fractured, and he sus- tained other injuries of a serious nature, He was taken to the hospital, and later to }ns hgmbe, ShereB av;(loperation was per- orme TS, v, i y o Berry)f uckley, Windle, Meyers The deceased was only 23 years of age, and was a young man of excellent charac. ter, being the principal support of an inva- lid_father. He received his appointment as driver of the ambulance on the nomina- tion of Supervisor Hirsch, who feels his 1 3 : He wasa 5;6 hganclsco Parlor, Native S:)r:]e;nber o r. Somers, in speaking of Scott’s d yesterday, said it was a mistaken idaa:?:tahr the ambulance would not be used again. The ambulance is being repairedf’ he said, “and will be again in ser day with a skiilful driver.” THeo Tues, ——————— ' THE LATE SENATOR BUCK. Vacaville Lodge of the Masons Honors His Memory. An eloquent memorial in h onor of the laéte ‘e)(;-slenxtor Leonard W. Buck was adopted last Friday evenin, V' ille Lodge No. 134, F. E s tee’s report reads: Masons of all grades in C everywhere who knew him,lll;’elfs‘g;ni:l'l;'lsiog; heads in sorrow when word reached them th V. ck had crossed to the other snore, o7 = " LUK Atter reciting the chief poi i Af oints of his pub- ¢ life the memorial conl{)nues: g His Masonic car : Lodge, Clinton, 1ok, began in Western Star z d he became a member of Vacaville Lodge No. 134, June 2, 1876. He 's George and A. M. The commit- presided as master of this lodge in 1884. He was a member of Solano Chapter No. 43, Royal Arch Masons, and received the degree. of Knighthood fn Holy Cross Commandery No. 10, Towe, Knights Templar, and became & member of Naval Commandery No. 19 of Vallejo in November, 1882, As a Mason he was cone sistent and faithful. Few have done more to give Masonry in our State the excellent repu. tion and high standing it enjoys. Our brother was no ordinary man. As a neighbor, 8 Mason, & citizen, he was & man whom all classes familiar_with him honored, believed in, looked up to. We have felt his in- fluence in'the past; it will be with us to the end of life. We shall miss him in the future, We mourn him to-night. We shall mourn him until we join him. F J. A. Webster, . H. Hacke, F. B. McDevitt, committee. —_————— A French medical authority asserts that death caused by a fall from a great height is absolutely painless. The mind acts very rapidly for ‘a time, then unconsciousness ensue: ROYAL WORGESTER CORSETS. Each and every pair of Royal Worcester Corsets have the full name stamped inside on the linen tape at the waist. If the full name is not there they are not gentine Royal Worcesters. The place to buy them is at the fitting-rooms, 10 Geary st., up stairs, corner of Kearny, where they are fitted free. We can fit any form ac any price and war- Tant every pair. If you have not worn them you should tr¥ & pair. CHESTER F. WRIGHT, 10 Geary st., cor. Kearny. Interior merchants please address wholesale rooms, 35 New Montgomery st § STHEVERY BESTONETOEXAMINEYOUR eves and fit them to Spectacles or Eyeglasses With instruments of his own invention, whose Supericrity has not been eqnaled. My guccess has been due to the merita of Wy Work. Office Hours—1210 4 P M. IMMENSE REDUCTION SALE CAPES, SUITS, SILK WAISTS, JACKETS, Etc. ARMAND CAILLEAT, 46-48 GEARY STREET, Corner Grant Avenue. Weak Men andWemen HOULD USE DAMIANA BITTERS, THE great’ Mexican Remedy: gives Health aad Stirength to the Sexual Organs.