Mr. Fish

In Manhattan, a customs inspector bent over a trunk. A bottle of Irish whiskey had broken in it, rousing his suspicions. He took four bottles which had not broken and was about to clear the trunk and its owner, one D. Fish of London, when from a bundle of laundry tumbled unexpectedly several little books of paper slips. They were lottery tickets. Further search of Mr. Fish's baggage revealed a total of 1,000,000 tickets on the Irish Free State Hospitals Sweepstakes on the Epsom Derby. Convinced that the U. S. would be a fertile market after the publicity given the winning of $886,360 by Clayton Woods of Buffalo last month (TIME, April 6). Mr. Fish himself stood to make some

$400,000 when his sale was finished. The sellers of the lottery tickets would get two free for every ten sold at $2.50 each. All the tickets were confiscated under Section 305 of the U. S. Tariff Act of 1930 pertaining to "Immoral Articles or Prohibited Importations."

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