ILLICIT U.S. LOTTERY
Spectacular Police Raid OVER 70 ARRESTS NEW YORK, January 15. Mr Lehman Thomas Dewey staged another spectacular raid on the so-called "pelicy" racket, an illicit lottefy which pays few prizes and has an annual intake of five million dollars. He arrested over seventy persons, male and female, including negroes, but failed to find one of the leaders, botb of wbom are West Indian negroes. wbo, for twenty years, by force and tbe employment of gangsters, bave levied tribute on tbe poorest negro. and . wbite sections of tbe city, compelling small mercbants to sell the tickefs. Mr Lebman Thomas Dewey, a special representative of tbe Governor of New York, after five months' intensive investigations uncovered the aetivities of a viee ring in February last year, de- 1 scribed 'as unprecedentedly corrupt. Mr Dewey 's work is regarded in America as phenomenally efficient. He brought about tbe long-term imprisonment of a usurious gang of 20 notorious "gangster Shyloeks."
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 1, 16 January 1937, Page 7
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