LOTTERY SWINDLES
(Press Assn.-
afylerican case , TWO WELL-KNOWN CITIZENS SENTENCED TO PRISON TOOK CHARITY MONEY
-By Telegraph — Copyrlght).
(Rec. 10 p.m.) New York, Nov. 15. With the suppression of all the remaining lottery charges qgainst Senator Davis and a Presidential pardon to Frank Hering, who was also involved, the case s.eemed to have beep brought to a close, not however, without two well-known figures being ordered imprisonment as a result of c.onvictiops. Conrad Mann, former president of the Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Bernard McGuire, New Yoi'k promoter, were sentenced respectively to five months and one year. The charge made during the trial o.f the case was that Mann, Hering and McGuire had received 460,000 dollars personal profit from a lottery adyertised tq raise money for charity purposes. Mr. Roosevelt refused to pardon Mann, but Senator Davis was acquitted last month. Later, however, Mr. Roosevelt reconsidered his decision and pardoned Mann's prison sentence. However, he ordered that the 10,000 dollars fine should stand.
Permanent link to this item
Hononga pūmau ki tēnei tūemi
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/RMPOST19331117.2.29
Bibliographic details
Ngā taipitopito pukapuka
Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 5
Word count
Tapeke kupu
164LOTTERY SWINDLES Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 691, 17 November 1933, Page 5
Using this item
Te whakamahi i tēnei tūemi
NZME is the copyright owner for the Rotorua Morning Post. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International licence (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of NZME. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Log in