CHARITY FRAUDS

Hokitika Guardian, 17 November 1933, Page 5

CHARITY FRAUDS

LOTTERY PROMOTERS GAOLED,

AMERICAN PROCEEDS STOLEN

(United Press Association—By Electric

Telegraph—Copyright)

NEW YORK, Nov. 15

'With the suppression of all remaining lottery law violation charges against Senator Davis and a Presidential pardon to Mr Frank Herring, a trustee of Notre Dame University, who was also involved in a sensational lottery case (cabled on August 18th, and November 12th, 1933) seemed to have been brought to close. It has not, however, been finalised without two well-known figures being ordered imprisonment as a result of convictions, Conrad Mann, a former President of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Bernard McGuire, of New York, promoter, who were sentenced respectively to five months and a year, on a charge made' during the trial of tne case that Herring, McGuire and Mann had received 460,000 dollars personal profits from a lottery advertised to raise money for charity purposes.

President Roosevelt refused Mann a pardon, but Senator Davis was acquitted last month. Later, however, President Roosevelt reconsidered his decision, and he pardoned Mann’s prison sentence. However/ 'he ordered that a ten thousand dollars fine shoxild stand.