Republican Herald

From the Albany Daily Advertiser.

Alteration or counterfeiting of Lottery Tickets.

E. Brown, the agent in this city, of the lottery managers, has lately received several tickets, purporting to be prizes but which, on examination, were found to be counterfeits. The deception consisted in the alteration of blank tickets, so as to resemble prizes. The blank numbers were cut out, and in their places were inserted prize numbers, most ingeniously pasted in to fill the vacancy: in some cases the alterations were made with a pen, in the most workmanlike manner, so that no one would discover the cheat, except on attentive examination; and as this is a novel mode of defrauding, the dealers were not used to closely examine the tickets, and consequently they were liable to be imposed upon.

On Thursday, a package of tickets was sent Mr. Brown to be redeemed. A part of them were genuine but several were counterfeits, altered as before stated.

This package came from D. W. Shepard, a dealer in lottery tickets in this city. Complaint was made to John O. Cole, the police justice, and an investigation was had. There was no evidence to show who altered the numbers; but Mr. S. was held to bail, as the tickets came from his office.—Further investigations will take place.