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Show Ij CHIfUESE LOTTERY HAS ESCAPED ISIS OF THE Li Bocauso County ALlornoy Charles Fan- had neglected to study Chinese , paleography and was unable to de cipher the up-and-down and weirdly confused alphabet, the caso of tho ' state against John Doe, Chinaman, charged with conducting a lottery, was dismissed in municipal court this morning. Judge George S. Barker, in the ab-! ab-! sonco of a correct interpretation of the ! printed matter on tho alleged lottery cards and tho failure of tho prosecuting prosecut-ing witness, a colored woman, to positively posi-tively stato that she had expended any money, dismissed the charges. The defendant has offices on Lincoln ave-nuo, ave-nuo, Twenty-fourth and Twcnly-flfth street, where, it was alleged, he conducted con-ducted a lottery. |