| Show rOuGING LOTrURr TICKETS A Biff Business IJoue in San Francisco Fran-cisco Capture of the Criminals SAN FRANCISCO January 11In October Oc-tober last a paper purporting to be a onefifth coupon of a Louisiana lottery ticket bearing a number that had drawn 1000 was sent from Oakland to New Orleans to be collected and there pronounced pro-nounced a forgery Investigation in this city followed and resulted in the discovery of dies from which counterfeit counter-feit tickets had been printed in the lithographic establishment of George H Baker on Mission Street At first Baker stated that HE HAD MADE THE DIES and printed the tickets from them each month since January 1886 on the order or-der of two men He gave the names and addresses of these two men to the authorities who refused to make them public until the arrest had been effected The men cannot charged with feinnv as the lottery tickets are not considered property in this State but will ba arrested ar-rested on the charge of misdemeanor for printine and uttering lottery tickets It is stated that a large business was done in these bogus tickets I |
