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Show SEIZED LOTTERY TICKETS. Successful Raids in New York Result in Capturing Goods. NEW" YORK OcL 23. In a scries of raids, representatives of District Attorney Jeromo's office today 3clzed ?100,0OO worth of lottery ticket hero and arreated six men and ono woman, all residents of tho lower east sldo. Tho priaonors are charged with selling lottery tickets at wholcsalo to ticket peddlers. All of tho places, It In alleged, sold four kinds of tickets, representing foreign lotteries. lot-teries. The tickets of tho German lotteries, lot-teries, which nro legalised by tho German Government, aro said to bo brought Into thc country by tho stewards of steamships and smuggled to tho agents. Tho attention of tho District Attornoy waa called to tho salo of lottory tickets hero by tho receipt of a number of complaints com-plaints regarding tho methods used by somo of tho wholesale dealers. Tho only way for tho winners of tho prize tlckots to get their money has been through the dealers who sold thorn. These men, It Is said, have. In many cases, taken tho winning win-ning tickets, sent them to tho company and received and kept the winnings. As thoro 1b no law to reach such a case, there has been no redress. |