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Breaking Up A Lottery Resort. Information was carried to Police Headquarters on Monday that there was a newly established head-quarters for lottery swindlers at No. 550 Broadway. It was said that the business was carried on with extreme caution, but that tickets for both the Louisiana and Kentucky lotteries were sold there. The numbers drawn in the lotteries were also received and distributed by means of agents who did most at their work in the open streets. Detective-Sergeants Kush and Weinberg watched the place for two days and ascertained that lottery and policy-dealers entered the building about 1 p.m. each day through a door in Mercer-street. These men passed through a small ante-room, where a watcher was always in attendance, and then entered the main office, where the lottery tickets are sold. Weinberg followed one of the men into a Broadway stage, and after they had ridden together for several blocks the man slyly took from under his cuff a slip with lottery drawings upon it. The detectives on Wednesday sent a spy into the main office, but the man could not procure a lottery ticket. He was given a blank order for tickets, which, he was told, could be filled out and send through the mail in an envelope containing money. On the bottom of the order were printed statements that lists of prizes would be mailed after each drawing and that tickets drawing prizes could be sent to the office for collection through the "ordinary mail." The name "M. J. Richmond" was at the top and bottom of the blanks. The same name name was painted on the door of the office: Inspector Isyrnes went before Justice Bixby yesterday and procured a warrant upon the evidence furnished by the detectives. At noon he stationed several officers near the Broadway and Mercer-street. doors of the building, and when the lottery-swindlers were believed to be in the offices he led an attack on the place. The officers were not resisted, and eight men, who were charged. with dealing in lottery and policy tickets, were arrested. The prisoners gave their names and addresses as follows: James McGuire, broker, No. 500 Broadway, Louis Watson, No. 200 West Houston-street; John Scanlon, clerk, No. 112 State-st.; James H. Adams, No. 25 Waverley, place; Charles Lindauer, agent, No. 43 Christopher-st.; Michael Wilson, clerk, No. 184 Mercer-st.; Peter Conlon, clerk, No. 8 City Hall-Place, and Thomas Tully, No. 2111 West Thirty-second-st.

• James McGuire, broker, No. 599 Broadway 40.7253375,-73.9997435
• Louis Watson, No. 200 West Houston street 40.728687,-74.0066333
• John Scanlon, clerk, No. 112 State street 40.7033429,-74.017031
• James H. Adams, No. 25 Waverley place 40.7324991,-74.0033084
• Charles Lindauer, agent, No. 43 Christopher street 40.73389,-74.0017162
• Michael Wilson, clerk, No. 184 Mercer street
• Peter Conlon, clerk, No. 8 City Hall-Place
• Thomas Tully, No. 219 West Thirty-second street

• Louisiana Lottery
• Kentucky Lottery

It appears that this is a version of the numbers game where the winning number is determined by the winning number chosen by the two legal state lotteries. In later years the winning number was chosen by using the last three numbers in the published daily balance of the United States Treasury. In another scheme it was the middle three digits of the number of shares traded that day on the New York Stock Exchange. (Source Richard Arthur Norton in 2019)

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