SENATOR ACQUITTED
Lottery Law Charge Heard
(Received October 13, 7.15 p.m.)
New York, October 12,
Senator James Davis was acquitted on a charge of violating the Federal lottery laws.
On August 18 Senator Davis, of Pennsylvania, who was Secretary of Labour in the Cabinets of Presidents Coolidge and Hoover, was indicted by a Federal Grand Jury with six other men on charges of conspiracy to violate and violation of the Federal laws prohibiting lotteries. The charges were based on the sale by fraternal organisations of tickets, which entitled buyers to cash prizes. Mr. Davis was director-general of one of these organisations, the Loyal Order of Moose. Two indictments, comprising 11 counts, were returned against him.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 17, 14 October 1933, Page 7
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