Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1892 — NO PRIZES WERE GIVEN. [ARTICLE]

NO PRIZES WERE GIVEN.

Victims of Bogus Lottery Tickets in This Country ami Canada. According to the statements of Chicago detectives who have been engaged for over four months in hunting the manufacturers of counterieit lottery tickets, a stupendous scheme for defrauding lottery ticket purchasers has been discoveied. In every city, town and village in Canada, Michigan, Indiana, Illinois and the Northwest the members of a gang have operated their clever swindle lor about a year and have come out of the game heavy winners. In all of these places persons live who think themselves born under a constellation of lucky stars and several comets, and at every change of the moon they have ma:;e investments in lottery tickets. It was to accommodate these persons that the men who are claimed to constitute an unlawful gang have boen working. But the tickets they sold were for drawings that never look place. The end of the business < ame when a plant for the manufacture of lottery tickets was discovered at 281 and 283 Clark street, and Jacob B. Stanger, the proprietor, was arrested and charged with forgery. Tho arrest is the outcome of the work of four months by the dete fives, who took up the tnse after W. T. Henderson, of Baltimore, attorney for the Louisina Lottery company, had done some work in the hope of detecting the defrauders. It is believed by officers or the Louisiana company the first issue of counterfeit tickets was made a year ago, and since then and up to the issue of Aug.ist last (he northern tier of States, the West, and Canada have been flooded' with these tickets. The market having been kept weil supplies, their sale at $1 each has netted the counterfeiters a neat sum. The men interested in this scheme have not confined their talents to the Louisiana company, but have issued tickets, it is claimed, on a. number of companies that do not exist. The detectives confiscated at the Stanger shop a fine lithographic press, about 16,000 Mantanza tickets, December Issue; 40,00Q Vera Cruz tickets of December and January issue, several large sheets of Louisiana tickets without the numbers and twenty engraving stones and several numbering machines. The plant is valued at $5,000. The Vera Cruz tickets were sold largely in the northwestern part of Chicago, the Mantanza tickets over bars in the country towns of Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, and lowa, while the Louisiana tickets went into Canada, Michigan, Illinois, and the Northwest.