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Show Police Unearth Lct'cery Based on Weather Reports ST. LrOUlS. Mo.. March IS.--Police ; toda announced they had discovered : the existence here of a gambling pool based on weather temperatures, wi?h j confiscation of 1.0U0 tickets which I were found in the possession of Wll-lllam Wll-lllam Gardner, a salesman, who is under un-der arrest. Tliti tiekets were priced at 25 an r.O cent and the prizes for winning numbers ranged from Si oo to $3000. I according to police, who aaid the lucky 1 numbers were determined by taking the last number 01 a few selected tem-! tem-! perature readings. Gardner's arrest followed fol-lowed the delivery iy him of tickets 1 to patrolman In plain clothes. This is the second allep"d lottery unearthed heri- since Friday when the poMc announced that operation of a nation-wide baseball pool; with head-' head-' onurtem in Cleveland, was Indicated as the result of th" arrest of a man believed by the police to be tho local j agent. |