Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire.

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1818
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Credit: Report of the trial of Charles N. Baldwin, for a libel : in publishing, in the Republican chronicle, certain charges of fraud and swindling, in the management of lotteries in the State of New-York. Containing, the publications in relation to this interesting subject - the evidence - the speeches of the counsel on both sides, and the charge of His Hon. C. D. Colden, Mayor of the city of New-York, to the jury ... / the whole being taken down in short hand, at the trial, with great accuracy, by H.W. Warner, esquire. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    finder, and carry it direct out of the wheel high over his head, to lei the spectators see that ail i:: fair, This most important and wholesome regulation is nut at. all regarded by our managers here. On the con- trary, our wheels, in this respect, have been so managed, that frauds tnigbt have been practised without the least danger of detection. The boy of this wheel has a frock-sleeve on his right arm, but he draws the number with his left hand—he draws three or four at a time, and care- lessly throws them into the receiver's lap—drops them about the floor— picks thftui up—throws them into the wheel again, and manages them with ail the non-chalance of a boy playing with useless rolls of paper. ft will readily be perceived that when a handful of these rolls are put into a sub-manager's lap, it would be no difficult matter for him to con- ceal or,c of them, and after carrying it a few days in his pocket, call it against the stationary prize of $35,000, or $70,000, or any other sta- tionary prize he pleased. And it will also occur to our minds, that he might be tempted to do this, either by the hope of buying a ticket of that number in the market, or by the certainty of gain from insurance on thai number, at the different insurance offices in the city, for a par- ticular day .' From the neglect of our managers to adopt the European manner, very alarming accidents have several times happened, to the knowledge of the managers themselves; and it is somewhat a matter of surprise, that with all that their experience has taught them, they should still be so \ery careless as they are in the management of the number- wheel. At one lottery, a little boy was detected in the fact of having con- cealed a number, which he had received from his master, who was an insurer, and who had been employed to make up the tickets for the wheel, as Mr. Sickles was to make up the tickets for the present wheel. At another, a little boy was bribed to conceal a number, which after- wards it appeard, was insured in the city, and the man being detected by the information of the boy, was exposed by the managers, and his project defeated. At another lottery, the drawing had closed, when a clerk tnfbrrtre-d the managers that No. 17 was not yet called—but the managers settled the hash quickly, by one's calling No*. 1?—and the other's answering '• blank !': in that instance, No. 17 had most likely been taken out of the wheel for some viilanous purpose, and the owner certainly was deprived of his chance for the high prize by somebody. Many similar Qcqidents have happened, and it is very strange that the wheel still is managed in the same harum-scarum and careless manner. The very day when Mr. Dennistou drew the stationary $35,000, in the Owego Lottery, Mr. Sickles drew the number in a very improper manner, lie nut bh nun hand in the wheel, and took out the number. It is ti ue the boy was, by some reason or Other, absent, but we object to (he irramier ! lie has managed in a way more improper at other times, by taking out a handful, and opening them from his lap. And here we entreat the managers, forthwith, to adopt the European mode in all ill prevent accidents and strange suspicions. It is for these tat we are now ranking these statements. We do not .Lr. John ii. Sickle*,or Mi*. Naphitali Judali, or Master