AMERICAN LOTTERIES
VIOLATIONS OF THE LAW Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright NEW YORK, November 15. With the suppression of all the remaining lottery law' violation charges against Senator Davis and a Presidential pardon to Frank Bering, a trustee of Notre Dame University, who was also involved, a sensational lottery case seemed to have been brought to a close. Two well-known figures were, however, ordered imprisonment as the result of convictions. Conrad Mann, a former president of Kansas City Chamber of Commerce, and Bernard M'Guire, a New York promoter, were sentenced respectively to five months and one year. The charge was made that Bering, M'Guire, and Mann had received 460,OOOdol as personal profits from a lottery advertised to raise money for charity purposes. President Roosevelt refused Mann a pardon, but Davis was acquitted last month. Later, however, President Roosevelt reconsidered his decision and pardoned Mann, but lie ordered that the 10,000dol fine should stand.
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Evening Star, Issue 21571, 17 November 1933, Page 9
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151AMERICAN LOTTERIES Evening Star, Issue 21571, 17 November 1933, Page 9
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