Show I I LOTTERY MAN MAN DEMANDS ALL Louis Gourdain I Insists on Serving His Penitentiary Sentence PETITIONS SUPREME COURT General J ii est ed t to o An- An ii- ii M i p i v t I B Washington July 17 li Lou la A. A Gourdain tho the Chicago o banker hankel convicted con con- recently of lottery promoting amid anil a who Is suld to 10 havo have uma amassed zi n. fortune of or In the past last four COUI 0 or 01 live five years yeal's arrived hero this evenIng evening even even- ing lug lie registered at a hotel n am convict convict con con- vict whet No penitentiary lie He tried to obtain red rell Ink for Cor this purpose pur pur- pose but was unsuccessful lIe He Immediately immediately im Im- mediately began legan work worl with an expert steno stenographer preparing a petition to the United States Supreme asking that his hum sentence of four rOUl and one half years years' Imprisonment lie bo Immediately Im Im- mediately executed and amid that tho the appeals appeals ap ap- ap- ap peals of oC his counsel bo lie disregarded lIe IIo will present this petition to an associated associated associated as as- Justice o of tho Supreme court COUlt either here herc or in New Nw York tomor tomor- row Will Ill Not ol Emit Eal or OJ Sleep Gourd Gourdain in declared declare that ho lie has neither eaten slept or drank luring during th time the past twenty four hours and aull that he hc ic will vill do neither until he ho returns to Joliet In his lils petition to the court ho 10 recites h his conversation with the lie warden at Joliet in which he said I 1 tol told him hint that I would neither eat cat at sleep nor not drink until I hun had tiled thou this mandamus proceeding before this honorable court and had II IL granted or refused to got set me mc hack back Into that that lint penitentiary The Tho petition prays that a writ of or mandamus be Issued It to and against JUll Judge e Grosscup of oC Chicago to set aside e the which t he hue granted grant grant- ed cd on ui-i July 8 8 l 1006 OG and that lie he om-dem om the marshal to Immediately tend send me nie back to the Illinois state penitentiary Mr MI Gourdain was con of violating vio yb- lating the law by hy managing a land lottery luttery lie He promised the trial jull judge e eto to take tako no appeal If Ir found guilty Tho The Jury rendered a CI verdict lct against him himIn himIn In fifteen minutes Ills His counsel took further proceedings without his consent con con- sc sent and anti ho hue feels that it is a matter of honor for Cor him hint to serve his sentence He has already y served one ono month Money Will h be he I Postmaster General Cortelyou has han been requested by Mr 11 Gourdain to give notice that lint all money willbe will willbo be bo returned to the people from whom It was lec received In connection with the time theland land hand lottery Mr Mm Gourdain owne owned a large largo tract tractor of or land In Louisiana on ott which there lucre was vas to be oil He lIe divided the tract tact into pl pieces and placed a value on In each Then Tho purchaser pur pum chaser drew a piece and amid paid the Iho price previously used fixed Mr Mi Gourdain hel held that ono uno Jib piece of land ml might ht be worth wortha a dollar or Oi It might be he worth one hundred hun hun- tired dred thousand dollars |