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Lottery-Dealers In Court. A. Orlando Jackson Fined $150. The Case Of Zachariah E. Simmons. The case of A. Orlando Jackson, a well-known lottery-dealer, indicted for selling Kentucky Lottery tickets at No. 82 Nassau-street, was called before Judge Gildersleeve, in General Sessions, yesterday, Jackson having pleaded guilty. His Honor said he would take Jackson's age and the fact that he had given up the business into account. He then imposed a fine of $150, which was promptly paid. The case of Zachariah E. Simmons, one of the most prominent of the Kentucky Lottery dealers, was then called. Simmons, who is Jackson's son-in-law, was twice indicted, on complaint of Mr. Anthony Comstock, for selling Kentucky Lottery tickets at No. 599 Broadway. The fact having become known that Messrs. John Graham and H. M. Whitehead would argue a motion to quash the indictments against Simmons, the court-room was crowded with well-known lottery men. Counsel for the accused moved to quash on the ground that there had been no evidence whatever before the Grand Jury, but that that body had found the indictments on the strength of a speech made by Mr. Comstock, and that the Grand Jury had ordered an indictment for one offense, to which the District Attorney, in drawing up the bill, had added four others, as set, forth in the various counts of the indictments. Counsel moved that the District Attorney be compelled to produce in court the minutes of the Grand Jury and the foreman or some members of that body to testify as to what took place when the indictment was ordered. Assistant District Attorney Bell, in reply, argued that the statute protected the members of the Grand Jury from being brought into court to testify as to the sufficiency or quality of the evidence taken before finding an indictment, and there was no provision under the law of the State for the production of the records of the Grand Jury in court. Decision on the latter point was reserved by Judge Gildersleeve, and the argument was adjourned until to-morrow morning, when Mr. Graham will speak in support of the motion to quash.

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• Judge Henry Alger Gildersleeve (1840-1923)
• A. Orlando Jackson, lottery dealer (numbers game)
• Zachariah E. Simmons, lottery dealer (numbers game)
• Anthony Comstock (1844-1915)

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