Swindle Stephen (2 results)

Pamphlet. Condition: Very Good. Vol 96, No 3, pp. 575-591, 4to, Extracted from orig vol, thus begins with title page, trimmed & stapled pamphlet, else VG.

English royal crest top left corner List of prizes on one side with instructions on how to enter the lottery and a list of winners and method of payment on the other St. Stephen did have a major 19th-century scandal known as the "St. Stephen Lottery Swindle," and many small firms, agents, and printers involved in lotteries, prize distributions, and "gift drawings" operated under short-lived trade names. (St. Croix Historical Society) You will oblige a great many of our fellow citizens by warning them against the "Royal New Brunswick Lottery", a swindle institution managed in St. Stephen New Brunswick under the fictitious name of Jay Goldsmith and Company. The United States postal authorities forbade the transmission of lottery matter through the mails, and the Dominion of Canada offered a safe base of operations, as according to the provisions of the existing international postal treaty between the United States and Canada mailed matter from either country, postage prepaid, has to be forwarded to its destination in the other period. The mails in the United States are flooded with special circulars, offering remarkable inducements in the way of prizes to purchasers of tickets. These circulars were at first signed F.W. Andrews and Company, later Hugh McKay and Company, and WD Simpson and Company and it was announced that the drawings would take place regularly every 30 days. It is stated for a fact that no money was ever paid to any purchaser of a ticket, and many drafts have been sent to the banks of Saint Stephen for collection by purchasers of tickets for prizes drawn but they were not honored when presented to the managers of the lottery by the bank officials. (St. Croix Historical Society) Crease to the left margin and very light creases down the middle caused by folding Small broadside printed in two columns on pink paper.